Problem with ffmpeg-free

[Reinhard Tartler]

Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger at uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with ffmpeg-free and hope that you can help me solve it:
>
> I want to use ffmpeg-free in combination with the dvdstyler-Software, a GUI 
> for dvdauthor (http://www.dvdstyler.de). dvdstyler needs libswscale from 
> ffmpeg. Unfortunately, dvdstyler crashes (because of a segmentation fault)  
> at some point when using libswscale from ffmpeg-free.
>
> This problem does not occur if I use libswscale from ffmpegcvs, available at 
> www.debian-multimedia.org. But I would really like to use ffmpeg-free, 
> because I want to use as few packages from other than official Debian 
> repositories as possible.

Can you please retry with the packages from here:

http://people.debian.org/~siretart/ffmpeg

They are currently being reviewed by the ftpteam and will show up in the
experimental branch of debian soon.

> Do you have an idea why the segmentation fault occurs with ffmpeg-free? What 
> is the difference between ffmpeg-free and other CVS-versions of ffmpeg? The 
> descriptions of the ffmpeg-free library packages (libswscale1d, 
> libavformat1d, ...) say that the packages use special versions of  the shared 
> objects, what is special with them? Do I have to change something in the 
> source of dvdstyler to use these special versions?

This note has been removed with the packages I mentioned above. 
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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4