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

[Dan Dennedy]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:19 AM, 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.
>>
>>   - Jonas
>>
>
> Hola mlt and kdenlive developers,
>
> are you aware of this issue? For myself, this is new!
>

Kdenlive is already compatible with avconv since version 0.9.4. So, if
this is an upgrade request, then the justification makes perfect
sense. MLT does not use libav/ffmpeg executables directly and is
already compatible with both projects' libs. Or, are you just saying
you are unaware of the libav fork?

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