ffmpeg next steps, was: next mplayer upload

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> AFAIUI no, at least not until some patent holder complains.

So you really want to push your luck?

> Hm. how about ffmpeg-extra as source package and 'libavcodec-extra-52'?

Fine by me.

> That's a good point. That sounds like a download and build script would
> be easy to create:

Yes, it proves good that we prepared the package to build on demand 
with internal and/or external encoders as easily as possible.

> So let's say this: if the unmodified source gets accepted into debian,
> and we're confident that ftp-master agrees here, we can ditch the
> master.unstripped branch in favor of this approach, OK?

Yes, I'd love to see this happen! There are already some other 
packages in Debian that are easily expandable with further external 
features by minimal changes to the packaging. For my personal 
repository I use the following script which works just perfectly and I 
would really appreciate if I could extend and use it for ffmpeg as 
well: <http://debian.greffrath.com/debian-greffrath-com-ify.sh>


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