Bug#418228: tagging bug reports about missing codecs

[Fabian Greffrath]

# tagging bug reports about missing codecs
user pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
usertags 433287 + ffmpeg-stripped-internal-encoders
usertags 459073 + ffmpeg-stripped-internal-encoders
usertags 476644 + ffmpeg-stripped-internal-encoders
usertags 440702 + ffmpeg-stripped-internal-encoders
usertags 370599 + ffmpeg-support-external-codecs
usertags 418228 + ffmpeg-support-external-codecs
usertags 418231 + ffmpeg-support-external-codecs
thanks

 From README-Debian of ffmpeg-free (0.svn20080206-3):

Disabled MPEG encoders
======================

On Debconf 7, the ffmpeg maintainers had a conversation with James Troup
from the ftpteam about mpeg encoders in the ffmpeg package. The ftpteam
was pretty surprised about the accepted encoders, and admitted that they
were accepted by accident. We therefore had no choice but removing
them. We agreed on a plan that rather disables than removes the
encoders, for details see debian/strip.sh, rendering those encoders
unusable.

In order to make this fact visible, the source package was renamed from
ffmpeg to ffmpeg-free. The plan is to provide a source package called
'ffmpeg' (without the -free) suffix, which builds drop-in replacement
binary package with the mpeg encoders enabled. Ideally, we would be
allowed to include those mpeg encoders enabled in non-free, but we
haven't heared back from the ftpteam about that idea.

  -- Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>, Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:43:23 
+0200