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Feature-request: WebM support for Squeeze



Hi all !

First of all I wanted to thank you for your efforts !
Second: It is a bit sad to see new great free video codec used on
non-free OSes, yet not available in Free OS - Debian Squeeze.

Problem:
Squeeze ships with FFmpeg 0.5.x (libavcodec52, 0.5.x), which lacks
WebM. 0.6.x required for WebM.

Backports solved it by backporting 0.7.x to Squeeze, but (!) - the
apps on top still use old codecs.

KDE Kaffeine player uses libxine1-ffmpeg (1.1.19-2, stable), which
uses libavcodec52 (0.5.1, stable)
I have lots of local WebM videos on hard disk, and no way to play them
in Debian.

backports repo has codec:
libavcodec53 (0.7.2, backports) -- but no way to force "libxine" and
"Kaffeine" to use new codecs.

I ask for help ! Please support WebM on Squeeze.

Q: Are backports packages designed to replace stable packages, or to
co-exist side-by-side ?
(I'm not familiar with 'backports' policy, and can't find it)

Thanks in advance,
-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"


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