Multimedia stack update (was Re: mplayer and codecs.conf)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

(Moving discussion to -developers)

On Tuesday, 15 June 2010 at 16:59, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2010/6/15 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at greysector.net>:
> > On Sunday, 13 June 2010 at 09:15, Andrea wrote:
> >> I wonder why mplayer does not come with codecs.conf.
> >
> > Because old codecs.conf files lying around in users' home directories
> > caused quite a few invalid bug reports. Hence upstream doesn't install
> > codecs.conf during make install and recommends against packaging it.
> >
> >> Without I get errors like
> >>
> >> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x34564C46.
> >>
> >> when playing some flv files.
> >
> > I'll fix that when I have some time. As I said before, comaintainers
> > are welcome.
> Hi Rathann,
> 
> BTW, co-maintainer speaking.
> 
> I'm testing another x264/FFmpeg stack for vlc-1.1. Do you mind I can
> push it. for Rawhide.

In general, yes, but I'd like to see the diffs first.

> We might want to backport it in F13 once tested but:
> 
> Two things:
> - I'm currently unable to het libvpx in (missing include intype.h or else)

Do you have build logs somewhere that I can see them?

> - For F13,  vlc-1.0.x users seems to have problem to encode in mp4 with in h264.

You mean "problem encoding h264 in mp4 container"? Any details?

Regards,
R.

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