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

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 30.05.2013 20:13, schrieb 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.

Some more less distros use it, too. And yeah dropping "ffmpeg" support 
would be terrible, but mlt/kdenlive should be compatible with both.


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