[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Anssi Hannula]

On 14.11.2010 05:23, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:34:56AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> On 13.11.2010 02:52, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:05:50AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>>> On 13.11.2010 00:26, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:48:59PM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>>>>> On 02.11.2010 15:09, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:23:56PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Personally I think it's a shame that FFmpeg is not shipped in such
>>>>>>>> important distributions just because of this reason.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How many people here have even heard of meego and how many use Fedora
>>>>>>> (on their desktops)?  Nowadays FFmpeg is available in all mainstream
>>>>>>> distributions, it's just the fringe ones that are missing, see
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_distribution_status
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BTW, if you have information to contribute to that package, let me know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, here goes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> == Mandriva ==
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The packages in 2010.1 and later have the aac decoder and encoder
>>>>>> disabled. The packages in 2010.0 and older are uncrippled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know why they disabled them?
>>>>
>>>> Because faad is not allowed in Mandriva, AAC decoding is presumed as
>>>> unallowed.
>>>
>>> do you have some link to related discussion or a changelog for their ffmpeg
>>> package?
>>
>> Here's the commit that disabled aac, but there is not much info there:
>> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages?view=revision&revision=548077
>>
>> Here's a mailing list post:
>> http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-05/msg00374.php
>>
>> When I asked why he didn't disable everything else as well, he said that
>> someone should tell him what is allowed and what is disallowed.
> 
> someone should show him that patent about XOR or that one about clicking
> buttons

Well, obviously he doesn't want to enable anything that hasn't been
allowed in Mandriva, unless he is told otherwise.

-- 
Anssi Hannula