Bug#395252: Same discussion concerning gst-ffmpeg

2006-11-05 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Loïc Minier wrote: I currently see no way to achieve building of gst-ffmpeg in a sane and maintainable way, and it seems we are very far from that. Very very far. I don't consider the case of gst-ffmpeg to be in any way similar to mplayer's case; xine-lib would be closer. Consider

Bug#395252: Same discussion concerning gst-ffmpeg

2006-11-02 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:08:19AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: My opinion on this matter was requested, so I'm documenting it here. gst-ffmpeg suffers from a very similar problem, since it has an embedded fork of ffmpeg. Just to clarify: MPlayer does not contain an embedded fork of FFmpeg,

Bug#395252: Same discussion concerning gst-ffmpeg

2006-11-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006, Diego Biurrun wrote: Just to clarify: MPlayer does not contain an embedded fork of FFmpeg, the FFmpeg libraries used in MPlayer are unmodified. I really fail to see why the same code should be in two sources then. The Debian Mplayer packages should simply be uploaded

Bug#395252: Same discussion concerning gst-ffmpeg

2006-11-02 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:17:49PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006, Diego Biurrun wrote: Just to clarify: MPlayer does not contain an embedded fork of FFmpeg, the FFmpeg libraries used in MPlayer are unmodified. I really fail to see why the same code should be in two

Bug#395252: Same discussion concerning gst-ffmpeg

2006-11-01 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, My opinion on this matter was requested, so I'm documenting it here. gst-ffmpeg suffers from a very similar problem, since it has an embedded fork of ffmpeg. My understanding is that upstream needs more than ffmpeg's offer in the first place, and also rewrote the build