Re: mplayer & ffmpeg with VDPAU Support
Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
I'm not one to tell others what to think or not. I'm just
saying that
replacement library should be avoided most, indeed.
But it shouldn't be necessary to move the whole Gnome Desktop
Environment to rpmfusion to have it full featured once it settles on
freetype-freeworld and etc.
Freetype is used by a lot more than just GNOME.
If bugs are reported to the freetype component instead of
freetype-freeworld, that's an education issue, and that's not related
to any technical capabilities.
I have watchbugzilla on freetype, I'll notice if people incorrectly report
things against it and triage it. So far I haven't seen a single
freetype-freeworld bug filed against freetype.
Now I'm kind of new to the specifics sub-pixel problem, Does the
patches were merged in freetype/cario/ upstream actually ?
The freetype patches are upstream, but disabled by default (so there's one
small non-upstream patch which enables them in the build-time
configuration). The cairo patches are not upstream (AFAIK upstream rejected
them for patent reasons) and we don't have a cairo-freeworld yet.
Will the package work along with the version in rawhide ?
There's a freetype-freeworld in Rawhide which should match the Rawhide
freetype. But normally API/ABI compatibility is not an issue with freetype
anyway.
Kevin Kofler