Bug#519025: [ffmpeg-debian] Please clarify which codec is included (and which isn't), and what exactly is ffmpeg-debian

[Xavier Douville]

Hi


Ok I will go trough and list what I think could be improved in README.Debian

There is a section "FFmpeg names". It says that the stripped packages 
will be named *-stripped-52 and that the (non existent) non-free 
packages will keep the original name. This isn't the case again as the 
stripped packages currently have the original name. Even if the 
unstripped packages enter Debian, from what I understand they will use 
the ubuntu namming convention *-unstripped-52.

The section about "disabled MPEG encoders" should be more specific 
because most people don't have the source package and can't read 
strip.sh. Anyways why would a user need to understand a shell script to 
know what a package can't do?

 From what I read in strip.sh, we could simply add :

"The following video encoders were disabled in debian because of patents 
: H263, H264, MPEG2 video, MPEG4 and MS-MPEG4."


Next there is a section abouts patents, but only talks about MP3, AAC 
and ASF. Is there a difference between those patents and those of the 
mpeg encoders? If not it could be in the same section.

I hope this will help,

Xavier Douville