er has
to install a lot of *-ffmpeg packages to get everything working.
So in short, if you want multimedia to "just work" in your software, use
GStreamer!
Kevin Kofler
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We cannot ship FFmpeg in Fedora in any form, not even in the source RPMs.
Not to mention all the other problems with bundled libraries in general:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
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20 years when all the current multimedia patents expire, but by
then there will probably be new codecs with new patents.)
Decoding needs to be done using GStreamer.
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t in
Fedora proper) or not shipping them at all.
Now ideally you wouldn't depend on FFmpeg at all! I especially don't
understand why you need an AV decoding library to do indexing.
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On Friday 10 June 2011, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >OK, since a lot of context apparently got lost during the message
> >passing, let
> >me just state my (personal) position clearly:
> >
> >What I think is acceptable:
> >* Module X wan
ggestion would actually be to do relaxed freezes as
in the 3.5 branch. Then let the module maintainer decide what is stable for a
point release and what not, but not proclaim a major release at a random point
in time. But that's just another suggestion thrown into the mix.)
I realize t
shipping, or we upgrade everything and get
yelled at by the people who don't want feature updates pushed, who sadly have
become dominant even in Fedora.)
(Please note that I do not speak for all packagers, nor even for all Fedora
KDE packagers. They may or may not agree with the above.)
