[Bug 254201] Re: feature regression: ffmpeg lacks some video encoders (like h263+, MPEG4, maybe more...)

2008-10-01 Thread Michael Robinson
Can we expect that by the time of Intrepid release that there will be an ffmpeg-free in main and an ffmpeg-nonfree, containing the missing codecs, in multiverse? Because otherwise this is going to make a lot of people unhappy with Ubuntu, for no good reason. -- feature regression: ffmpeg lacks s

[Bug 254201] Re: feature regression: ffmpeg lacks some video encoders (like h263+, MPEG4, maybe more...)

2008-10-01 Thread Michael Robinson
Just a note here so Google can find it: This bug also affects any packages or scripts that rely on the mpeg2video encoder (such as m2tstoavi, etc.). As a workaround, you can add the following lines to /etc/apt/preferences Package: ffmpeg Pin: release a=hardy-updates Pin-Priority: 1001 And make

[Bug 104687] Re: [apport] perl crashed with SIGSEGV in wnck_screen_get_default()

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Robinson
Note that this is a very low priority bug, and probably should be for upstream; the program is incorrect in how it uses the API, and should throw an error regardless (no initialization of Gtk2 has been done). A core dump does seem to be a bit severe, however. -- [apport] perl crashed with SIGSEG

[Bug 104687] [apport] perl crashed with SIGSEGV in wnck_screen_get_default()

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Robinson
You have been subscribed to a public bug: Binary package hint: libgnome2-wnck-perl The following program crashes on a reasonably up-to-date Feisty system: #!/usr/bin/perl use Gnome2::Wnck; $screen = Gnome2::Wnck::Screen->get_default(); $screen->signal_connect( active_window_changed => sub {

[Bug 42397] Re: Can't register Xsession on dapper beta

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Robinson
I'm also seeing this, with gdm version 2.14.4-0ubuntu2. gdm appears to be executing /etc/gdm/Xsession with a different real and effective gid, which most of the GTK programs, and definitely gnome-session, don't like. -- Can't register Xsession on dapper beta https://launchpad.net/bugs/42397 --