Audacity and libav transition [was Re: Introduce Ross Gammon to Debian Multimedia Team]

[Ross Gammon]

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On 10/20/2013 02:57 PM, Klaumi Klingsporn wrote:

> as far as I can see in the changelog of audacity 2.0.4-1 the 
> transition is far away from being finished - or at least it's a
> very special understanding of finished transition:
> 
> "* Disable libav support. (Closes: #692809) audacity is not yet
> compatible with libav 9 and needs to be ported first. Until
> audacity has been ported, support for some audio formats (AC3, M4A,
> MP4, WMA) is not available. - debian/control: Remove
> libav{codec,format,util}-dev build dependencies. - debian/rules:
> Build with --without-ffmpeg."

You are right. I missed that in the fine-print at the bottom of the bug:-)

This may be a bit too tricky for me, but I have started looking at the
libav API documentation, and the libformat code, and we will see where
I get to.

> 
> To speak as a user mainly: Would be nice if the old ffmeg-based 
> facilities of audacity returned.
> 
> Klaumi
> 
Ross
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