[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 10:22:07 (CET), Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
>>> FTR, I do maintain both packages in both distribution under the umbrella
>>> of the debian pkg-multimedia packaging team.
>>>
>>> The differences between ffmpeg and ffmpeg-extra are solely in three
>>> additional build dependencies (elaborated elsewhere in the thread).
>>> Moreover, ffmpeg-extra provides drop-in replacement packages for
>>> libraries and is an annoyance to maintain.
>>
>> That's what I thought. So dynamic plugin loading support in FFmpeg
>> would help, right?
>
> in the way that you proposed, probably not.

You mean a single source package? That was not a proposal, I was just
saying that it's possible. All I'm saying is that dynamic plugin
loading helps packaging FFmpeg.

So, what would make your life easier to package these two variants?

-- 
Felipe Contreras