Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-08-13 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 1 August 2010 01:32, Steve Dibb wrote: [...] > The description is misleading, and needs to be changed.  Just because > something has an mp3 and a lame use flag, it does not mean that flipping on > lame means that the application will prefer lame over mad or mpg123. lame (the MP3 encoder) has n

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-08-03 Thread Luca Barbato
On 07/31/2010 05:09 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 7/31/10 4:37 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: >> vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm. No, vpx is for using libvpx. >> At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that >> apps supporting vp8 will start popping u

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday, July 31, 2010 16:02:51 Steve Dibb wrote: > On 07/31/2010 12:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday, July 31, 2010 14:27:14 Jacob Godserv wrote: > >> Honestly not sure what convention is for naming, but I found this > >> > >> recently, and thought I might throw it out there: > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Steve Dibb
On 07/31/2010 12:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday, July 31, 2010 14:27:14 Jacob Godserv wrote: Honestly not sure what convention is for naming, but I found this recently, and thought I might throw it out there: ~ $ euse -i lame [+ C ] lame - Prefer using LAME libraries for MP3 e

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Steve Dibb
On 07/31/2010 05:37 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm. At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on arista ebuild which will support it). Though we mig

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday, July 31, 2010 14:27:14 Jacob Godserv wrote: > Honestly not sure what convention is for naming, but I found this > recently, and thought I might throw it out there: > > ~ $ euse -i lame > > [+ C ] lame - Prefer using LAME libraries for MP3 encoding support > > > While, as

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:30:06 +0100 Robert Bridge wrote: > Speaking as a user, I would ask what the standard file ending is? Most > users won't know what the codec is, they will just know is foo.webm or > foo.vpx/8. > > Just a thought if debating the name. Honestly not sure what convention is fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:09 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 7/31/10 4:37 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: >> Though we might discuss if vpx is really a good name or it shouldn't be vp8. > > It might also be webm. Not sure what's more intuitive for people. Also, > nteresting question would be whether to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 7/31/10 4:37 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: > vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm. > > At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that > apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on > arista ebuild which will support it). Just ve

[gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-07-31 Thread Hanno Böck
vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm. At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on arista ebuild which will support it). Though we might discuss if vpx is really a good name or