Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:52:58 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: plan for ffmpeg-devel Message-ID: <200704030953.02349.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070402202318.05f379b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <b2203fed0704020837u3f4e6d6av658175c060765916@mail.gmail.com> <20070402202318.05f379b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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--nextPart4156977.5pu1MKO3jX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 2. April 2007, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:37:32 -0400 > > Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I want to move ffmpeg-devel -> ffmpeg and we need testers. > > not just to make sure things build but to assure movies play, > > mp3's still play, etc... Please test new ffmpeg-devel > > AFAICT, I'm not an active user of ffmpeg-devel or ffmpeg. I see that it > is installed on a couple of my FreeBSD machines (probably as a > requirement for something else that I have installed). > > It looks to me like ffmpeg is for video format conversion, and that it > is not a video player program. Is this correct? Only at first glance - ffmpeg provides the libavformat, libpostprocess and= =20 libavcodec libraries, which provide container parsing, image enhancement an= d=20 encoding/decoding, respectively, and which are, and I'm not exagerating her= e,=20 the de-facto backend of *every* established open source multimedia software= ,=20 be it mplayer, vlc, transcode, xine ... take away ffmpeg from any of those,= =20 and you get approximately the format support of an out-of-the-box Windows 9= 5. However, since ffmpeg isn't a project that does proper code releases, most= =20 other projects maintain the ffmpeg sources in their own repositories and sh= ip=20 them in their release tarballs (which is somewhat unfortunate). Like Michael says, vlc is a good test candidate, since it dynamically links= to=20 ffmpeg(-devel) as in ports. Transcode is another. But I think we should consider updating the ffmpeg-devel to a more recent=20 snapshot before doing the move, as even the ffmpeg-devel port is rather=20 outdated these days. Or even better, update ffmpeg to a snapshot that is=20 widely used elsewhere (read: popular Linux distributions) and keep=20 ffmpeg-devel around and put the latter on an aggressive update schedule (on= ce=20 a month). =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart4156977.5pu1MKO3jX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGEgfbXhc68WspdLARAkFKAKCACNh8Oe7WR/mBCejJon0so94ZAgCcDwcy 9xkybxyNTMvHWZWAG8r2BqY= =Cwrn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4156977.5pu1MKO3jX--
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