Bug#582286: Bug#582271: Looks as if the ITP for webm and libvpx are ITPs for the same software
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:33:56PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:26 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 04:22 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > for me it looks as if http://bugs.debian.org/582271 and
> > > > http://bugs.debian.org/582286 are more or less about packaging the
> > > > same software. (I'm though not sure so no merge by me, just a heads
> > > > up. :-)
> > > >
> > > > Regards, Axel
> > >
> > > They are, thanks for noticing :)
> > >
> > > libvpx is the library name for the encoder/decoder, webm is the
> > > marketing name of the file format.
> > >
> > > A package for libvpx is already waiting in NEW.
> >
> > Actually, libvpx only deals with the video codec part of webm. The
> > container part is handled by libnestegg (at least on mozilla end).
> >
> > Would some of you be interested in taking care of libnestegg ?
>
> I'm not interested in libnestegg, especially because I don't understand
> why they have to write yet another Matroska demuxer instead of using one
> of the existing ones...
Probably because webm is supposed to be a *strict* subset of matroska, not
matroska. I guess other stuff using matroska {de,}muxer won't care about
the strictness, which i actually think is not that good.
Mike
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