Bug#660786: ffmpeg: please migrate /etc/ffserver.conf to /etc/avserver.conf

Luca Capello luca at pca.it
Tue Feb 21 20:54:52 UTC 2012


Package: ffmpeg
Version: 4:0.8-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/ffserver.conf
Usertags: pca.it-multimedia

Hi there!

Given that libav-tools replaces ffmpeg, /etc/ffserver.conf should be
automatically migrated to /etc/avserver.conf:
=====
$ sudo git whatchanged -1
commit d65680bd23009b1a8b4ad4ab6b100dc7ea878d17
Author: luca <luca at gismo.pca.it>
Date:   Tue Feb 21 21:30:14 2012 +0100

    committing changes in /etc after apt run

    Package changes:
    -ffmpeg 4:0.7.3-2
    +ffmpeg 4:0.8-1
[...]
    -mplayer 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn33713-5
    +mplayer 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b1

:100755 100755 474c9b8... 811aa29... M  .etckeeper
:000000 100644 0000000... 1f21f4d... A  avserver.conf

$ diff -U 0 ffserver.conf avserver.conf
--- ffserver.conf       2011-09-01 22:50:03.000000000 +0200
+++ avserver.conf       2012-02-05 23:43:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -15 +15 @@
-# Number of simultaneous requests that can be handled. Since FFServer
+# Number of simultaneous requests that can be handled. Since AVServer
@@ -28 +28 @@
-# Suppress that if you want to launch ffserver as a daemon.
+# Suppress that if you want to launch avserver as a daemon.
@@ -34,2 +34,2 @@
-# and/or audio sequence coming from an ffmpeg encoder or another
-# ffserver. This sequence may be encoded simultaneously with several
+# and/or audio sequence coming from an avconv encoder or another
+# avserver. This sequence may be encoded simultaneously with several
@@ -40 +40 @@
-# You must use 'ffmpeg' to send a live feed to ffserver. In this
+# You must use 'avconv' to send a live feed to avserver. In this
@@ -43 +43 @@
-# ffmpeg http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm
+# avconv http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm
@@ -45 +45 @@
-# ffserver can also do time shifting. It means that it can stream any
+# avserver can also do time shifting. It means that it can stream any
@@ -58,2 +58,2 @@
-# Specify launch in order to start ffmpeg automatically.
-# First ffmpeg must be defined with an appropriate path if needed,
+# Specify launch in order to start avconv automatically.
+# First avconv must be defined with an appropriate path if needed,
@@ -61 +61 @@
-#Launch ffmpeg
+#Launch avconv
@@ -72 +72 @@
-# 'test1.mpg'). FFServer will send this stream when answering a
+# 'test1.mpg'). AVServer will send this stream when answering a
@@ -337 +337 @@
-# An SDP file is automatically generated by ffserver by adding the
+# An SDP file is automatically generated by avserver by adding the

$ dpkg-query -S /etc/avserver.conf
libav-tools: /etc/avserver.conf

$ dpkg-query -s ffmpeg | grep ffserver
 /etc/ffserver.conf d4d0a77d594735af0d92e12e2b74aa15 obsolete

$ md5sum /etc/ffserver.conf 
d4d0a77d594735af0d92e12e2b74aa15  /etc/ffserver.conf
=====

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libav-tools  4:0.8-1+b1

ffmpeg recommends no packages.

ffmpeg suggests no packages.

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