Bug#531728: asterisk: console video support

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:12:01AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Jonas, hi,
> 
> Thanks for your report.
> 
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Asterisk 1.6 supports video on console channel if linked against FFmpeg
> > libraries.  Unfortunately the autoconf code does not detect the location
> > of those libraries as packaged by Debian, and the console code expects
> > old organisation of header files.
> I don't feel very good about linking against another big library, much
> more without proper upstream support. I haven't made up my mind yet,
> though, I'll give it a try.

I'm slightly less uncomfortable with linking it with a big library,
provided it is in a separate subpackage.

Note that the console package conflicts with chan_alsa and chan_oss and
maybe it makes sense to move it to a subpackage due to this conflict
anyway.

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