On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 06:22 +0100, august wrote:
Roman, it would also be great if you could add gmerlin to your ppa list. Is that difficult? I'd think it wouldn't be too much work if you already have the others (gavl, etc).
Simply including the sources that are already included in the official Ubuntu repositories is easy. But I wouldn't see any point in doing that.
hmm. maybe I don't understand yet how it all works...
When I install the official gmerlin repo, it overwrites libgavl in /usr/lib with a version that is older than that which came from installing the pd-readanysf package from the puredyne ppa's.
I also noticed that whoever did the "official" package for ubuntu made it without gmerlin_encode. This basically makes the package useless.
This all seems odd. I would think there would be 4 packages:
libgavl -> provides base library for audio video frames
libgmerlin_avdec - provides libs for decoding av
gmerlin_encode -> provides plugins to gmerlin for encoding
gmerlin -> provides a framework for building gui apps, also includes
many handy applications such as gmerlin_transcoder
Do you need a more up-to-date version of the gmerlin package? And what
It would be nice (maybe even crucial) to have all the gmerlin packages in sync -> packaged by the same method, at the same time.
for do you need it, just out of curiosity?
the gmerlin package has some of the nicest (and easiest) transcoding software I have yet used. I use it a lot. But, the official package is broken as far as I can see, since it doesn't include any of the encode plugins. It also has a very handy ogg/vorbis/theora streaming app that seems to be missing from the official package.
-august.