[Kdenlive-devel] Bug#710419: kdenlive: needs porting to use avconv executable (not ffmpeg)

[Lou Logan]

On Thu, 30 May 2013 17:19:44 +0200
Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei at debian.org> wrote:

> Am 30.05.2013 18:02, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> > Package: kdenlive
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Renders (soon) the package unusable
> >
> > Kdenlive depends on ffmpeg executable for transcoding source material
> > (and possibly other tasks as well).
> >
> > ffmpeg is targeted for removal, so kdenlive need adaptation to instead
> > use avconv executable.

This only concerns the so-called "ffmpeg" package (whose upstream is
libav, not FFmpeg) in Debian and its downstream relatives. This should
not be confused as a general case among distros.

> Hola mlt and kdenlive developers,
> 
> are you aware of this issue? For myself, this is new!

Other distros are not using the fork libav, so support for ffmpeg
should be continued if avconv support is also added.

Lou