On Tue, April 29, 2008 11:57, Christian Marillat wrote: > Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I still don't understand the necessity to upload Lives in Debian. >>> >>> Without mjpegtools you can't encode in mpeg2. Same for transcode or >>> mencoder who doesn't exist in Debian even if you add a note saying >>> "Lives doesn't work, you need to add this package from this site" >> >> Anyone can add it from wherever he wants, or take a Debian package >> and rebuild it according their needs. This is a lot easier when you can >> just say apt-get source PACKAGE, without having to figure where else it >> is (if it's not in an official debian repository). > > Debian isn't Gentoo. > >> Besides, someone can just use lives effects, then reencode the movie >> into whatever format he wants at the end of all the editing. >> >>> the >>> first user will certainly don't understand why Lives doesn't work >>> because this use will certainly never read the README.Debian. >> >> There's no README.Debian. > > Even better. How user should guess what is missing then ? > > Christian > >
There is no need to guess, LiVES will inform you if/when you select an encoder plugin which has missing requirements. Also, if the user tries to open (import) a file which has no support in mplayer, they will see an error message on the terminal informing them that mplayer is possibly missing a library. Regards, Gabriel. http://lives.sf.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]