> > I see no reason why this package should be restricted to just PCs. > > I wish to modify avi files on my Mac. > > Well I see the one - I'm the maintainer of the packages and as well > as developer of avifile itself - I really don't have time to work > on all platforms - if you have time and knowledge and you want > to help me with making this packages usable on PowerPC > you are welcome - avifile is written portable and if it doens't > work on bigendian machines it's obviously a stupid bug somewhere > (and I know it used to work on PowerPC) - but as majority > of people are using mplayer which has tons of developers across > all the platforms - I'm just about happy I do handle update of libs > and so on for avifile for i386 platform ;)
I have players, though admittedly they are cruddy. I want the tools, not the player. I really just want to make snapshots. (best would be lossless extraction of I-frames to JPEG) Simply allowing non-x86 builds would be a great start. There should be a package for me to install, but there isn't. Perhaps it would work. Blocking the build makes sense for something like valgrind, where failure on non-x86 has very obvious and non-trivial reasons. Add "albert" to the SourceForge project if you'd like me to give that a try. I'm kind of busy with the procps, saturntools, and tuxpaint projects though.
