Control: tags -1 wontfix On 2026-02-15 18:49:10 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 7:8.0.1-1 > Tags: patch > > With the introduction of whisper.cpp in Debian, it became possible to > enable the Whisper filter in ffmpeg, allowing quick and automatic > transcript of audio using GPU backed audio processing. > > Following the recipe available from > <URL: > https://medium.com/@vpalmisano/run-whisper-audio-transcriptions-with-one-ffmpeg-command-c6ecda51901f > > > I just successfully was able to use the latest ffmpeg from salsa with > the following patch to transcribe the example from that article, ie > using this command: > > ffmpeg -i > https://github.com/vpalmisano/webrtcperf/releases/download/videos-1.0/gvr.mp4 > -vn -af "whisper=model=$HOME/models-whisper/ggml-model-q5_0.bin\ > :language=en\ > :queue=3\ > :destination=output.srt\ > :format=srt" -f null - > > The resulting output.srt contained a sensible transcript of the video. > > Please consider enabling whisper support in the ffmpeg edition provided > by Debian.
Not at the moment. whisper.cpp and its (build-)dependencies are not in testing and looking at their current state they are not ready to be promoted to key packages. Cheers > > diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control > index e0fa35ce..2ecf3219 100644 > --- a/debian/control > +++ b/debian/control > @@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ Build-Depends: > libzvbi-dev <!pkg.ffmpeg.stage1>, > # --enable-opencl > ocl-icd-opencl-dev | opencl-dev, > +# --enable-whisper > + libwhisper-dev, > # used to detect libraries > pkgconf, > # HTML documentation > diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules > index 6b3da34f..a2c128f0 100755 > --- a/debian/rules > +++ b/debian/rules > @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ CONFIG := \ > --enable-libxml2 \ > --enable-libxvid \ > --enable-libzimg \ > + --enable-whisper \ > --enable-openal \ > --enable-opencl \ > --enable-opengl > > -- > Happy hacking > Petter Reinholdtsen > -- Sebastian Ramacher
