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

[Christopher Martin]

Hello,

Attached is a patch (lacking only a changelog entry and a line in 
debian/patch/series) that backports wma and wmapro support from an 
early January ffmpeg snapshot to the ffmpeg in sid (wma and wmapro are 
intertwined, so it was easier just to update both together).

It works well for me. Please consider it for your next upload.

Thanks,
Christopher Martin

On December 6, 2009 13:03:21 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 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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