On 2010-08-31 09:42 +0200, Praveen A wrote: > 2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net>: >> I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to >> legal risk to SPI. I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia >> repositories which, while good, are not official. > > apt-cache policy libmad0 ffmpeg > apt-cache show libmad0 ffmpeg > > pr...@savannah:~$ apt-cache policy libmad0 ffmpeg > libmad0: > Installed: 0.15.1b-5 > Candidate: 0.15.1b-5 > Version table: > *** 0.15.1b-5 0 > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > ffmpeg: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 4:0.5.2-3 > Version table: > 4:0.6-2 0 > 101 http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Packages > 4:0.5.2-3 0 > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages > > It is in debian main. I was surprised to see even wmv/wma playing out > of the box with squeeze.
AFAIK Debian's ffmpeg package does not disable any decoders, only encoders are stripped. So playing wmv/mp3/whatever works out of the box, but to create your own mp3 files you need an uncrippled third-party ffmpeg version. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hj6re97....@turtle.gmx.de
