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On 02/03/13 15:08, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 14:54:22 +0800 |
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> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> media-video/avidemux (bundled libs) |
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> I like this application, but am not so sure about maintaining this... =/ |
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> Would it be reasonable to create a new package avidemux-ffmpeg in which |
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> we create a version of ffmpeg with their patches applied? Perhaps we |
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> can also remove the parts of ffmpeg that aren't used by avidemux to |
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> keep the overhead of having ffmpeg twice on the system low. |
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> I don't see any other reliable solution, unless upstream is willing to |
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> stop bundling ffmpeg and get their patches incorporated on that. |
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> But upon reading the progress on Debian, there is barely any progress |
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> on that as far as I am aware of; and I'm not willing to maintain a |
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> package that has 1) an unpatched ffmpeg that breaks it for people or |
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> 2) a bundled ffmpeg that keeps it from getting unmasked / reliable / ... |
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> The other approach is for someone to attempt to try to get all these |
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> patches upstream, but some of them are undocumented which makes it hard |
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> to understand what the changes actually are done for; and at this point |
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> in time it is not guaranteed that ffmpeg would take these patches. |
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> So, what is the Qt herd's opinion on creating a avidemux-ffmpeg package? |
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The embedded FFmpeg in avidemux is only patched to convert UNIX line |
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endings to DOS line endings to match rest of the avidemux source tree |
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There should be a script in the repository and/or the tarball to convert |
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orig. FFmpeg source tree to this. |
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Even if that wasn't the case, separate package doesn't make sense, |
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USE="+system-libs" might |
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