Problem with ffmpeg-free

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

> Oh, the patch you have found 

I created that myself. :-)

> is more or less pretty much what the 
> debian/strip.sh does strip off patented encoders. The debian archive
> administrators do not accept mpeg related encoders, so we had to strip
> them for for debian.

Well, I understand , but I am surprised that seemingly none of the ffmpeg-free 
package maintainers was aware that such an obvious difference (a missing 
encoder) from other ffmpeg-versions caused my problem.
   
>
> Obviously dvdstyler relies on the availablitly of a specific mpeg2
> encoder, which has been disabled for debian. Unfortunately, it does not
> check if that codec is actually available, but just crashes. Which is a
> pitti :(

Are there other, free MPEG2-Encoders in ffmpeg?

> btw, would you please tell me which version of the ubuntu ffmpeg you
> were comparing against?

Version 0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7

Regards
  Christoph