2010/7/29 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 23:28 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: >> >> > Speaking of which, is there any chance to split ffmpeg into free (which >> > could be included in fedora) and nonfree part? IIRC we've done something >> > like that with xine-lib-extras and gst-plugins-bad in the past... >> >> ffmpeg, unfortunately, isn't set up to be modularised like this; you >> can't build an ffmpeg-free with the free codecs and an ffmpeg-patented >> with the patented ones and have them co-exist nicely. So an ffmpeg build >> with almost all the codecs ripped out in the Fedora repos would >> 'compete' with the full build in That Other Repo, not complement it, and >> the way the two repos are set up, it would be tricky to have a >> handicapped build in the Fedora repo and a full build in That Other One >> and have it easy for people to pick the one from That Other Repo (since >> Other Repo packages use the same disttag as Fedora ones). >> -- >> Adam Williamson >> Fedora QA Community Monkey >> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org >> http://www.happyassassin.net >> > > That is assuming that "the other repo" uses the same name as Fedora's. > Fedora could call it ffmpeg-free, and "the other repo" could call it > ffmpeg-nonfree, and have the nonfree one obsolete the free one. Simple fix, > I think. > -- The issue is who can split the patent free codecs from ffmepg? Obviously, ffmpeg upstream don't like this idea, maintaining a fedora specfic ffmepg isn't a easy job. Regards, Chen Lei -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
