[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mi, Nov 03, 2010 at 08:39:02 (CET), Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Di, Nov 02, 2010 at 14:28:59 (CET), Luca Barbato wrote:
>> 
>> > On 11/2/10 1:23 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >> There is a need to package separately free, and patent encumbered
>> >> codecs. Right now that's impossible with FFmpeg, and that's the reason
>> >> it's not offered on Fedora, or MeeGo.
>> >
>> > That is a stupid excuse as pointed by ubuntu.
>> 
>> Just FTR, I really dislike the ffmpeg/ffmpeg-extra hack and would prefer
>> a solution that does not involve a copied source package.
>> 
>> What's holding me back from doing this are three build dependencies,
>> that are not available in the 'main' section: libx264-dev,
>> libxvidcore-dev and libmp3lame-dev. Moving these three dependencies to
>> main is unfortunately not an option AFAIUI.
>
> Why?

cf. Message-ID: <87lj5b6i36.fsf at faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

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