ffmpeg needs updating.

[user.vdr]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> wrote:
> Checkinstall is crap, please do not use it!
>
> If you realy want to stay on the "bleeding edge", I'd recommend to use the
> packages that we provide in experimental.

I don't mind not being on the bleeding edge but h264 for example isn't
really bleeding edge imo.  Support was added some time ago.

Since my last writing, someone has suggested to try debuild.  Any
opinion of that?  I'm going to take your advice and try ffmpeg-debian
experimental source.

> Please have a look at the changelog of the package currently in lenny:
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/ffmpeg-debian/ffmpeg-debian_0.svn20080206-15/changelog
>
> You'll see that it has been uploaded in March 2008 to experimental. Since
> then we have applied many, many changes to the package. Patches have been
> removed, configure flags have been added, etc. All this effort has been done
> to *stabilize* the package. The highest priority for the Debian stable
> release (which is what Lenny is about to become) is stability. You can say,
> the package needed about one year from its initial upload to stabilize and
> reach a state in which it can be released as part of Debian stable in good
> faith.

Couple things..  I didn't know Lenny was about to become stable,
that's cool!  Seems like it didn't take as long as Etch did!  Also
didn't realize the general wait til is one year for a package to
stabilize.  I've been using debian for a dedicated dvb box for some
years now and I must say it has been nearly rock solid the whole time.
 The few times problems came up it did crash & burn but it always
worked out in the end.

Thanks for enlightening me on some of these inner workings.  :)
-Derek