[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

Diego Biurrun diego
Wed Nov 3 09:24:24 CET 2010


On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:02:27AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Mi, Nov 03, 2010 at 08:39:02 (CET), Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> On Di, Nov 02, 2010 at 14:28:59 (CET), Luca Barbato wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On 11/2/10 1:23 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> >> There is a need to package separately free, and patent encumbered
> >> >> codecs. Right now that's impossible with FFmpeg, and that's the reason
> >> >> it's not offered on Fedora, or MeeGo.
> >> >
> >> > That is a stupid excuse as pointed by ubuntu.
> >> 
> >> Just FTR, I really dislike the ffmpeg/ffmpeg-extra hack and would prefer
> >> a solution that does not involve a copied source package.
> >> 
> >> What's holding me back from doing this are three build dependencies,
> >> that are not available in the 'main' section: libx264-dev,
> >> libxvidcore-dev and libmp3lame-dev. Moving these three dependencies to
> >> main is unfortunately not an option AFAIUI.
> >
> > Why?
> 
> cf. Message-ID: <87lj5b6i36.fsf at faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Sorry, I misread and thought this was about Debian.  What is the status
of these packages in Debian?

Diego



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