Fwd: Re: Bug#834131: Video support still not working

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Forwarding to Qt/KDE maintainers list as it may be read more closely.

Also asking on #debian-qt-kde channel may yield quicker results.

Ciao,
Martin

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Betreff: Re: Bug#834131: Video support still not working
Datum: Sonntag, 18. Dezember 2016, 13:53:34 CET
Von: Steve M. Robbins <steve@sumost.ca>
An: Simon Frei <freisim93@gmail.com>, pkg-kde-talk@lists.alioth.debian.org
MartinKopie:  Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>

On Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:49:42 PM CST Simon Frei wrote:

> [...] upstream has dropped QTmultimedia for video handling and uses
> QtAV (which in turn is based of ffmpeg). Unfortunately QtAV is not yet
> in debian (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737016),
> however upstream provides debian packaging already, which worked almost
> fine for me (buildep without -nc flag resulted in an error). This will
> take effect in the upcoming 5.4.0 release due at the end of this month.

Thanks for the heads-up on the change to QtAV.

Question for the KDE maintainers: the RFP for QtAV is fairly old, which makes 
me wonder if there is any issue (technical or legal) that stands in the way of 
packaging it.  ??

Thanks,
-Steve

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Martin