Bug#667573: [x264-devel] Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-17 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/17/12 09:28, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > The fact that Jonathan confirms that dlopen()'ing the second library > works confirms that both libraries are ABI compatible for practical > reasons. Jonathan, what problem would a 2nd pkg-config file solve? > There were a few things that were in

Bug#667573: [x264-devel] Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-17 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/14/12 21:56, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > Something like this commit should do the trick: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/x264.git;a=commitdiff;h=ceab497a30560db9db7bf6ded594400f76a2686a > > This is not finished, though. It still needs documentation in > README.Debia

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-13 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 13/10/12 04:59, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Oh I see what you did there. I don't think that's gonna work in debian. TBH, I think we should just install the 10 bit libx264.so binary into the regular libx264-NN package and document it properly in ./usr/share/doc/libx264-NN/README.Debian. On the s

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-12 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/12/12 03:41, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> I do not know about x264cli, but I can confirm that if ffmpeg is dynamically >> linked with libx264.so.$version, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to control which >> build is loaded allows to select between 8-bits and 10-bits at run-time. > > That's indeed

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-12 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/12/12 09:15, Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 21 vendémiaire, an CCXXI, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : >> How about Debian's alternatives system? I think it is easier to use >> and more consistent than a LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack. > > AFAIK, the alternative system requires root privileges to change

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-12 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/11/12 21:07, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote: > > Would dlopen() work to hack around this sort of limitation? I recall > seeing a hack for x264cli that allowed both 8-bit and 10-bit encoding > by doing this. > > Jason > Certainly a dlopen() approach works adequately for me now. It is just th

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-11 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 11/10/12 21:07, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote: It'd be very difficult to do this; we'd effectively have to version every single symbol so that they don't collide, then template all the appropriate code. It'd be a lot of work and I don't know anyone willing to do it. Indeed - that would be a

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-11 Thread Jonathan Rosser
o be able to co-exist. Anyway, just some input to help define what might be useful for a 10bit x264 package. Jonathan Rosser Lead Research Engineer BBC Research & Development ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@list