Bug#667573: [x264-devel] Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-17 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/14/12 21:56, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Something like this commit should do the trick: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/x264.git;a=commitdiff;h=ceab497a30560db9db7bf6ded594400f76a2686a This is not finished, though. It still needs documentation in README.Debian. I'm

Bug#667573: [x264-devel] Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-17 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/17/12 09:28, Reinhard Tartler wrote: The fact that Jonathan confirms that dlopen()'ing the second library works confirms that both libraries are ABI compatible for practical reasons. Jonathan, what problem would a 2nd pkg-config file solve? There were a few things that were in my

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-13 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 13/10/12 04:59, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Oh I see what you did there. I don't think that's gonna work in debian. TBH, I think we should just install the 10 bit libx264.so binary into the regular libx264-NN package and document it properly in ./usr/share/doc/libx264-NN/README.Debian. On the

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-12 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/11/12 21:07, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote: Would dlopen() work to hack around this sort of limitation? I recall seeing a hack for x264cli that allowed both 8-bit and 10-bit encoding by doing this. Jason Certainly a dlopen() approach works adequately for me now. It is just that my

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-12 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 10/12/12 09:15, Nicolas George wrote: Le primidi 21 vendémiaire, an CCXXI, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : How about Debian's alternatives system? I think it is easier to use and more consistent than a LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack. AFAIK, the alternative system requires root privileges to change the

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-11 Thread Jonathan Rosser
-exist. Anyway, just some input to help define what might be useful for a 10bit x264 package. Jonathan Rosser Lead Research Engineer BBC Research Development ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Bug#667573: x264: 10 bit builds

2012-10-11 Thread Jonathan Rosser
On 11/10/12 21:07, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote: It'd be very difficult to do this; we'd effectively have to version every single symbol so that they don't collide, then template all the appropriate code. It'd be a lot of work and I don't know anyone willing to do it. Indeed - that would be a