Wolfgang Baron <wolfgang.ba...@gmx.net> writes: > Am 18.02.2014 14:40, schrieb Olaf Dietsche: >> Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hi Wolfgang. >>> >>> I wonder how is it going with dvbcut? Are you still working on it? >>> >>> In debian, we are currently trying to move to libav10, and dvbcut >>> fails to compile against it: >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739220 >>> >>> Before spending too much time on dvbcut, I wonder if it made sense to >>> keep dvbcut in Debian? We currently carry quite a number of patches: >>> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/dvbcut/0.5.4+svn178-4 that >>> really should go upstream. >> There is a Qt4 port at https://github.com/nextghost/dvbcut-qt4, though I >> don't know how mature this is. >> >> I just uploaded a quick hack to make dvbcut build with the current >> ffmpeg 2.1.3, see https://github.com/olafdietsche/dvbcut/tree/ffmpeg-2.1.3. >> >> I don't know how far away libav10 is from ffmpeg. Maybe, this helps with >> your effort to go to libav10. > Maybe you can tell me, whether ffmpeg and libav10 are still the way to > go for ultimate performance, or whether I have a better alternative for Qt?
I don't know, if ffmpeg or libav is superior regarding performance. For me it doesn't really matter, because for removing commercials from a video, either should be fast enough. I stick with ffmpeg, because I had some problems with libav in the past, which were resolved by using the then current ffmpeg version. For the widget set, if you want to keep dvbcut cross-platform, you're limited to just a few toolkits, Qt, Gtk, wxWidgets. The two big ones, Qt and Gtk, are both valid choices, I think. So, in the end, it is largely a matter of taste and which one you're most comfortable with. >> Past attempts to reach Sven in order to take over dvbcut at Sourceforge, >> haven't been successful, AFAIK. So, I would say, you must either >> maintain your own repository or abandon dvbcut in Debian. > I am suffering from the same fate. I have tried to contact him in every > possible way on every possible channel, but he is just ignoring every > communication attempt. Like I said earlier, my current idea is to create > a new, similar project on bitbucket or sourceforge. Well, that's the point of open source after all. You can maintain or extend a project, even if the original author isn't around anymore. And even if the author is still active, you can fork a project, as can be seen with ffmpeg/libav. So, since Sven isn't responding, you're free to move on. At least, that's what I have done with my github repository. Regards, Olaf _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers