Xavier Douville <[email protected]> writes: > Fabian Greffrath a écrit : >> Xavier Douville schrieb: >>> I think that would help answer many "can't play video" questions. >> >> In Debian's ffmpeg version no codecs were stripped that would be >> required for playback of video, only *encoders* have been removed. >> >> > Right, thanks for this clarification.
> I also understand that there is a formats.txt.gz file but it's a very > long file How is that a problem? You asked for clarification, didn't you? > and it's not clear that mpeg4 encoding was disabled because of patents > and not because it's not supported by upstream. You're wrong, ffmpeg does *not* feature neither an h264 encoder nor one for vc1. FFmpeg *does* provide an wrapper for libx264, but that cannot be used in debian because of http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/x264/news/20070513T170746Z.html > This is only a suggestion but since ffmpeg, especially the ffmpeg > binary package, is commonly used to encode a video (as opposed to > libavcodec which is used most of the time to decode videos), Wrong again, as Fabian pointed out. > -Add an other file in /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg which would only list > disabled codecs, and suggest an alternative? Feel free to propose alternative wordings to README.Debian, I'll happily review your suggestions. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
