Enable faad support in ffmpeg/experimental

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> In principle I agree with you. However, ffmpeg has quite some reverse
> dependencies now, and uploading a package with SONAME change (or even
> worse: ABI breaks without soname change) would make transition of
> dependent package really hard. The release team wouldn't be please of
> that, since this could potentially delay the release.

Yes, it's a shame that ffmpeg upstream does not even attempt to 
provide a stabile API, not to mention stable release tarballs, while 
OTOH it is such a crucial library for nearly all free media players 
out there.

BTW, how is the situation "out there"? Is the MPlayer team considered 
upstream for ffmpeg and all other players like VLC, Xine and GStreamer 
maintain their own forks?

> Indeed. Therefore I suggest that we update the ffmpeg package in
> experimental NOW, get it built and somewhat tested and talk to the
> release team about uploading it to unstable.

Great, I am fine with this.

> Yes, that would be great. Do you have already worked on that?

Yes, I have allready tried to reproduce the Debian tarball via SVN 
export, but I got a 900k diff. Please read 
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2008-February/000848.html>


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