Re: Multimedia package updates : ffmpeg, mplayer, transcode and kino

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote :

> On Friday, 09 December 2005 at 10:59, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm going to be pushing some "major" updates today. Please report any
> > possible breakage.
> > 
> > Important things to note :
> > - Kino 0.8.0 required an ffmpeg update to compile
> > - The ffmpeg update updates the soname of libpostproc
> > 
> > This lead me to take drastic measures towards libpostproc at last, as I've
> > disabled it being built from mplayer and renamed the ffmpeg sub-package
> > "ffmpeg-libpostproc" in order to make it easier to obsolete the old
> > package from mplayer (which had a higher version).
> 
> May I point out that packaging libpostproc and libavcodec as shared
> libraries is discouraged by their authors because there's no stable API
> yet?

Yeah, it's always been like that, but transcode requires ffmpeg, and as a
shared library... :-(

Matthias

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