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Bug 516303 - GAP should allow usage of external ffmpeg
GAP should allow usage of external ffmpeg
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gimp-gap
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.4.0
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: hof
hof
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-13 21:07 UTC by quazgar
Modified: 2008-02-19 07:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description quazgar 2008-02-13 21:07:59 UTC 
To reduce redundancies and also to prevent bugs like #516302, GAP should have an option to use an already installed ffmpeg (provided the development packages/ sources/ includes exist as well, of course).  This would be an advantage for package maintainers as well concerning ffmpeg upgrades/ security issues.
Comment 1 hof 2008-02-19 07:03:47 UTC 
Sorry, but there will be no support to build GIMP-GAP with already
installed ffmpeg in the near future.
   
ffmpeg does not provide stable releases, and sometimes breaks 
backwards compatibility as development progress goes on.
Furthermore, some GIMP-GAP features (the video index) depends
on internal behaviour of the tested versions of libavformat and libavcodec.

This is the reason why ffmpeg is included in the GAP sourcetree.
Using another version of ffmpeg has a very high risk
to produce a broken or just partly working GIMP-GAP application.
In some cases even build will fail.


(Update to recent ffmpeg is already in progress, but not yet ready for check  in to svn)