Bug#462899: ffmpeg: Removal of mpeg2 encoder also removes decoder, is this intentional?

[Daniel Dickinson]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:27 +0100
Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:

> Daniel Dickinson <cshore at wightman.ca> writes:
> 
> > I was surprised when mpeg2video encoder was removed, but as it's a
> > patent issue there's not much to be done.  My query today has to do
> > with the mpeg2video decoder.  Is it also patented, or is its
> > disappearance a side effect of removing the the encoder?
> 
> can you please check the version from experimental?

It works.  I realized afterwards that it may be in the lenny one too; I
discovered the encoder wasn't there when I was unable to encode to
mpeg2video despite it being being listed in -formats (and the
experimental -formats still has mpeg2video listed an an encoder for
format, but not codec), but I thought the decoder wasn't included
because of problems with totem-gstreamer not playing dvd, but that
appears to be a separate issue (I tested the experimental ffmpeg by
converting a .vob that used mpeg2video to an mpeg1video).

Regards,

Daniel


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