Enable faad support in ffmpeg/experimental

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> Good question. ATM, neither me, nor sam nor lool seem to really have
> time to update ffmpeg. I tried that in the past, and I noticed that
> quite some patches don't apply anymore to up-to-date ffmpeg. Sam
> promised me to look at the altivec patches to see if they sould still be
> applied and/or update them, but I didn't hear back from him.

This is really sad. :/

> So in effect, I'd propose the following: Let's update to a new upstream
> version, introducing a SONAME change (I'm pretty sure that by now, the
> ABI did change. Sebastian Droege [slomo at d.o] told me at some point
> 'something' was broken). Any patches that don't apply and are not
> obvious how to port them should be dropped. We only "disable" them,
> read: we leave them in the source package but don't apply them. Perhaps
> sam finds time in the future to review and/or update them. (or confirms
> that they can be dropped).
> 
> How does sound to you?

Well, everything different from resignation sounds good to me. If this 
concept proves its worth, I suggest releasing ffmpeg packages on a 
regular basis (e.g. as soon as something noteworthy is advertised on 
their homepage).

OTOH, there are still issues with several encoders (e.g. MPEG-2) and 
the question aroused if they should be included in Debian main or 
maybe non-free or not at all. Has this discusion seen any progress?

Cheers,
Fabian


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