Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-29 Thread Michael Niedermayer
Hi Vittorio On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:45:42AM -0400, Vittorio Giovara wrote: On 12/08/2014 18:30, Michael Niedermayer wrote: Also ive offered my resignation in the past. I do still offer to resign from the FFmpeg leader position, if it resolves this split between FFmpeg and Libav and make

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-29 Thread Michael Niedermayer
Hi Vittorio also please dont remove ffmpeg-devel from the CC I had missed that you removed it so my reply went just to debian-devel full quote left below for ffmpeg-devel, no further inline comments below Thanks On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 07:17:55PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: Hi Vittorio

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-23 Thread Michael Niedermayer
Hi On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 03:16:50AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote: Servus, On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:43:18 +0900 Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: By continuing old fights, inspite of the very clearly friendly and open offers and suggestions byu Michael, you and others from AV

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-19 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:15:10AM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 09:14:47PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: [...] Ive asked [1][2] back then what policy in place was broken - you tried to commit code that was blatantly below the already lax quality requirements (e.g.

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 01:19:38AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Stefano Sabatini wrote: [...] The list is quite long and debunking each of the statements could take a lot of time. I'm going to address two historical misrepresentations: # The change of management Michael Niedermayer

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-15 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 02:53:09PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 08/14/2014 11:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 08/14/2014 11:27 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 08/13/2014 07:53 AM, Kieran Kunhya wrote: On 08/13/2014 06:30 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: Also ive offered my

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-12 Thread Michael Niedermayer
internal issue. That's why mphq (the server) was otherwise untouched. [3] Unfortunately, in April 2011, Michael Niedermayer threatened to sue me personally over a redirection on the MPlayer homepage (for some reason http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu redirected to http://libav.org), which i

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-12 Thread Michael Niedermayer
. I think i should write up something longer after my vacations and put it somewhere online. Before 2011 there were quite a few issues within FFmpeg. Most of those revolved around Michael Niedermayer playing by his own set of rules and ignoring the advise of everyone else. His behaviour has

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Niedermayer
Hi On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:10:23AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: [...] IMHO it's reasonable to expect core APIs to be upwards-compatible and keep deprecated interfaces around for another release or two. This

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-10 Thread Michael Niedermayer
(1): Andreas Cadhalpun (1): Andrew Wason (1): Carl Eugen Hoyos (4): Clément Bœsch (45): Derek Buitenhuis (1): Hendrik Leppkes (1): James Almer (19): Justin Ruggles (4): Lou Logan (2): Mans Rullgard (3): Martin Storsjö (1): Marton Balint (2): Matt Oliver (2): Michael Niedermayer (308): Nicolas George

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-29 Thread Michael Niedermayer
of errors. You could also have asked FFmpeg upstream. (I've CCed Michael Niedermayer now.) Yes the problem space is hard ... The problem with multimedia in relation to security is that * There are hundreads of different formats, requireing alot of code to support them * The input files

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Niedermayer
not mean will not be included Yes, it does. Someone will have to convince the security team somehow, likely by offering to do the work themselves _and_ convincing them that these new members will be around for long enough. Michael Niedermayer from FFmpeg upstream volunteered to help