Bug#247337: [Fwd: lives_0.9.8.10-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED]
On Tue, April 29, 2008 11:57, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>>> I still don't understand the necessity to upload Lives in Debian.
>>>
>>> Without mjpegtools you can't encode in mpeg2. Same for transcode or
>>> mencoder who doesn't exist in Debian even if you add a note saying
>>> "Lives doesn't work, you need to add this package from this site"
>>
>> Anyone can add it from wherever he wants, or take a Debian package
>> and rebuild it according their needs. This is a lot easier when you can
>> just say apt-get source PACKAGE, without having to figure where else it
>> is (if it's not in an official debian repository).
>
> Debian isn't Gentoo.
>
>> Besides, someone can just use lives effects, then reencode the movie
>> into whatever format he wants at the end of all the editing.
>>
>>> the
>>> first user will certainly don't understand why Lives doesn't work
>>> because this use will certainly never read the README.Debian.
>>
>> There's no README.Debian.
>
> Even better. How user should guess what is missing then ?
>
> Christian
>
>
There is no need to guess, LiVES will inform you if/when you select an
encoder plugin which has missing requirements.
Also, if the user tries to open (import) a file which has no support in
mplayer, they will see an error message on the terminal informing them
that mplayer is possibly missing a library.
Regards,
Gabriel.
http://lives.sf.net
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