Bug#559712: new ffmpeg snapshot would add support for important codecs (e.g. wmapro)

[Reinhard Tartler]

Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn at debian.org> writes:

> Package: ffmpeg
> Version: 4:0.5+svn20090706-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello,
>
> With support for so many codecs added to ffmpeg recently, I was 
> wondering whether the upload of a new snapshot was planned for the near 
> future. In particular, I'm interested in wmapro support, which I see 
> was added recently, as per the announcement on the ffmpeg frontpage.

current ffmpeg is not binary compatible with ffmpeg 0.5.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/100196 is the
corresponding thread on the upstream mailing list that discusses the
problem.

Feel free to backport wmapro to ffmpeg 0.5, though.

OTOH, ftp-master seems to feel to rather remove ffmpeg from debian,
which would be very sad for debian. In any case, I do intend to prepare
a new snapshot for ubuntu in the motumedia PPA. Probably with a globally
bumped SONAME, because of the problems stated above. I don't know what
this means for debian though. Might be a fun experiment to see how long
that package would rot in NEW, though.

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