Package: ffmpeg
Version: 0.cvs20070307-6
Severity: important
#439897 notwithstanding, version 0.cvs20070307-6 of the package added a
debian/strip.sh script to disable MPEG2 encoding capabilities. It might not
yet be disabled in all scenarios, but it has been disabled in an important
capability, making it useless to a large class of users in a specific
locale.
Precisely, encoding on the fly as a stream output has been broken from the
point of view of vlc, which breaks freeplayer. See bugs #440216, #440508.
Yet, apart from this excerpt from the changelog.Debian:
* Add debian/strip.sh to strip ffmpeg upstream source disabling mpeg
based encoders as discussed with ftp-master at debconf7
there appears to be zero information about the rationale for this removal in
/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg, not even patents.txt.
Please state the rationale for this removal, in a less terse way.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
ii libavcodec1d0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg codec library
ii libavformat1d 0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg file format library
ii libavutil1d 0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg utility library
ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype62.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libimlib2 1.3.0.0debian1-4 powerful image loading and renderi
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-9 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libswscale1d0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg video scaling library
ffmpeg recommends no packages.
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