Bug#448307: wengophone: Video does not work, codec with ID 20 not found.

[Eric Lavarde]

Hi,

first try before going to bed was not successful, and I used a slightly 
modified script to get the same version from CVS:

DATE=20070307 <-- here is the difference
TREE="ffmpeg-0.svn$DATE"
rm -Rf "$TREE"
svn export svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk "$TREE"
tar cvzf ffmpeg_0.svn"$DATE".orig.tar.gz "$TREE"

But then I get the following:

patching file configure
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1446.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file configure
Patch 005_altivec_flags.diff does not apply (enforce with -f)
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

I haven't yet looked into it... I'll try again once I've got more time.

Eric

Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
> Severity: minor
> 
> Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
>> Eric Lavarde - Debian Bugs wrote:
>>> 1. I've checked README.Debian from ffmpeg in [1] and I've actually got
>>> the
>>> Marillat's packages installed. Is it what you call the full version?
>> Yes, it should work. Mhm, I'll try and debug it ASAP
> 
> Ok, that README.Debian file is quite old. The removal of such codecs is
> not documented, apart from the changelog. I'll ask the maintainer.
> 
> Moreover I realized that marillat packages built from ffmpeg have
> different names from official ones. Therefore they do not get replaced.
> 
> Video support can be enable by self-recompiling ffmpeg.
> It can be done by following this procedure:
> 
> 1. create the orig tarball according to
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-multimedia/unstable/ffmpeg/README?op=file
> 
> 2. Apply
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/ffmpeg-free/ffmpeg-free_0.cvs20070307-6.diff.gz
> 
> 
> 3. Replace "ffmpeg-free" with "ffmpeg" inside debian/changelog and
> debian/control (ehm, the right way would be adding a new entry in the
> changelog)
> 
> 4. Build the package (e.g. with dpkg-buildpackage)
> 
> Then you can install the new package and get video support in wengophone
> (no recompilation of wengophone needed).
> 
>>> 2. wengophone does neither require nor recommend ffmpeg, though, from
>>> your
>>> explanation, I understand that it's a dependency (or are you only using
>>> the codec, which doesn't exist in Debian's ffmpeg, so it can't be a
>>> dependency?).
>> Wengophone depends on libavcodec, which is one of the libraries
>> generated by the ffmpeg source package.
>>
>>> 3. Perhaps you could document these things also in a README.Debian? It
>>> would be clearer for dummy users like me.
>> You're absolutely right. This is a very good reason to leave the bug open.
>> I should have done it earlier, sorry :)
> 
> Leaving the bug open until proper documentation is done.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ludovico
>