Providing non-stripped ffmpeg libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> writes:

> Does anyone know what happens when an app requests a disabled codec? I
> don't know if upstream already took care of this case.

the application will get a null pointer instead of a
AVCodecContext. Good applications handle this and print an error
message. Buggy applications will segfault. I've already seen both types.

> I'm certain that FFmpeg devs would love to NOT have their source package 
> modified.

It took me quite some effort to convince them that this approach was an
acceptable compromise. Not all developers agree here, but I still think
it is better than not shipping ffmpeg at all.

> We should set it up to where users don't have to edit anything, only
> enable some option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS like internalencoders.

agreed.

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