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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:09:16
Message-Id: 4C543CBA.8090703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8 by "Hanno Böck"
1 On 7/31/10 4:37 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
2 > vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm.
3 >
4 > At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that
5 > apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on
6 > arista ebuild which will support it).
7
8 Just verifying: does the vpx USE flag in ffmpeg control the support for
9 encoding vp8, decoding it, or both? How should www-client/chromium
10 depend on ffmpeg to make sure it will support vp8?
11
12 > Though we might discuss if vpx is really a good name or it shouldn't be vp8.
13
14 It might also be webm. Not sure what's more intuitive for people. Also,
15 nteresting question would be whether to enable the flag by default an in
16 which profiles (desktop?).
17
18 Paweł

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8 Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>