On Friday, 07 October 2022 at 18:22, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 14:03 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 06 October 2022 at 18:25, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 17:16 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> > > > Forwarded as a dedicated topic:
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > > [ ... ]
> > > >
> > > > On my side I want to rework the ffmpeg package to get back to
> > > > normal
> > > > (so conflicts with fedora will be restored) and only drop a
> > > > libavcodec
> > > > freeworld replacement in an additional dedicated sub-package
> > > > (with
> > > > ldconfig override) to complement the fedora counterpart.
> > > >
> > > > It means the best of two worlds:
> > > > - Having our ffmpeg build to be fully autonomous.
> > > > Do not require small pieces of fedora ffmpeg, and don't wait for
> > > > counterpart updates, which have been "dramatic" in the past,
> > > > specially
> > > > with chromium.
> > > > - It will also provide a means to complement the fedora ffmpeg-
> > > > free
> > > > one from the same package (and to not require a dedicated build,
> > > > maintenance).
> > >
> > > So we only need libavcodec_freeworld to complement ffmpeg-free.
> > >
> > > and what about move minidlna , smplayer etc to Fedora proper ?
> > > should
> > > it go ?
> >
> > I've been using minidlna with libav{codec,format,util}-free for many
> > months with no issues. I'd say it can go to Fedora as it doesn't
> > depend
> > on libavcodec at all, only on libavformat and libavutil. libavcodec-
> > free
> > is only pulled in as a dependency of libavformat.
> >
> > I'd be happy to co-maintain as I use it daily.
>
> I'm not the maintainer of minidlna , but I also use it often .
>
> but mlt for example, can I enable ffmpeg on Fedora proper and use
> libavcodec-freeworld ?
You can enable it at build time and the either install
libavcodec-freeworld or swap the whole ffmpeg-free with ffmpeg. Either
should work.
> Not just the question of moving packages to Fedora that just dependent
> on ffmpeg , but also if we should start enabling ffmpeg on some
> packages like opencv , MLT etc .
My opinion is that yes, we should start enabling ffmpeg everywhere it
makes sense.
Regards,
Dominik
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