From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 07:53:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC35516A402 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:53:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28CB813C459 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:53:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.15]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BA415BC82 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765D32D3A65 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (dslb-084-061-136-187.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.136.187]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6AA19B32E for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:53:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (root@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.2]) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l337r34T030814 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:53:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l337r2oH038085 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:53:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.6/8.13.4/Submit) id l337r2TF038084 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:53:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kiste.my.domain: lofi set sender to lofi@freebsd.org using -f From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:52:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070402202318.05f379b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20070402202318.05f379b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Face: g:jG2\O{-yqD1x?DG2lU1)(v%xffR"p8Nz(w/*)YEUO\Hn%mGi&-!+rq$&r64,=?utf-8?q?fuP=7E=3Bbw=5C=0A=09=5EQdX?=@v~HEAi?NaE8SU]}.oeYSjN84Fe{M(ahZ.(i+lxyP; pr)2[%mGbkY'RmM>=?utf-8?q?+mg3Y=24ip=0A=091?=@Z>[EUaE7tjJ=1DRs~:!uSd""d~:/Er3rpQA%ze|bp>S MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4156977.5pu1MKO3jX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704030953.02349.lofi@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: plan for ffmpeg-devel X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:53:09 -0000 --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 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--