Bug#528365: VLC has serious problems showing xvid and h264 videos

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 11.11.2009 11:10, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> however I really don't feel like uploading to debian, because I was told
> last saturday two weeks ago on the phone (the ftpmaster had an internal
> meeting, and asked my opinion on the patent matters) that they are
> currently considering removing ffmpeg completely and all related
> packages from debian.

What? The? Fuck?

You must be joking!

> Since we have a rather large amount of ubuntu branches in our ffmpeg
> repository, I'm currently considering moving the ubuntu branches to a
> new git repository called 'ffmpeg-ubuntu' on git.debian.org. The
> alternative would be to have a 'master-ubuntu' branch that is not
> renamed every time a new version of ubuntu is released.

Let's wait for a final decision. If squeeze is released with ffmpeg I 
think we may feel save and keep things as they are. If queeze is 
released without ffmpeg and all the other accompanying packages, 
please feel free to do what you want...


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