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

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Thu Nov 12 08:34:02 UTC 2009


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.

During this phone call, did they also mention what they mean by "all 
related packages"? I mean, what is the future of faad, libmad, a52dec, 
libdca, twolame, etc. in Debian?!

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