Bug#354667: x264 for Debian

[Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>]

David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net> writes:

> Salut Christian,

Salut David,

> Would you consider packaging x264 for Debian?  My experience with your
> unofficial packages has been excellent on both x86 and amd64. Even
> though the library is still labeled "in early development", it appears
> to be mature enough to be clearly useful. I have for instance used
> ffmpeg in conjunction with your unofficial x264-bin to encode video for
> streaming with VLC and obtained impressive results.
>
> Since the code is GPL there should be no legal obstacles.

The source code in GPL but I don't know if the codec meet the DFSG.

I don't know how to search...

Christian