Bug#199266: ffmpeg?
Sam Hocevar wrote:
> Which package?
Gallery - http://gallery.sf.net
They would like to use ffmpeg to create thumbnails of movies uploaded to
the gallery in the next major upstream version (gallery2)
> The reasonable behaviour is to ignore patents unless they are being
> actively enforced. There are such enforced patents in ffmpeg and I did
> not yet check all codecs and file formats.
>
> If your upstream needs ffmpeg for MP3 encoding, for instance, be
> warned that it will not be available.
I doubt that will be an issue, but I haven't done anything with the
gallery2 code. Gallery2 is still in a pre-alpha stage but I guess it's
far enough along that upstream wanted to see if everything they depend
on would be available on Debian.
> You could do that in the meantime. I should have time this weekend to
> upload ffmpeg packages into experimental.
Thank you. Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist you.
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