Bug#601114: ITP: ffms2 -- An FFmpeg based source library and Avisynth plugin for easy frame accurate access

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 16:52:41 (CEST), Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
>
> * Package name    : ffms2
>   Version         : 2.13
>   Upstream Author : Fredrik Mellbin, Mike Matsnev
> * URL             : http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource
> * License         : MIT (but debian packages will be GPL'ed because of linking against ffmpeg)
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : An FFmpeg based source library and Avisynth plugin for easy frame accurate access
>
> FFmpegSource (usually known as FFMS or FFMS2) is a cross-platform
> wrapper library around FFmpeg, plus some additional components to deal
> with file formats FFmpeg's libavformat has (or used to have) problems
> with. It gives you an easy, convenient way to say "open and decompress
> this media file for me, I don't care how you do it" and get frame- and
> sample-accurate access (usually), without having to bother with the
> sometimes less than straightforward and less than perfectly documented
> FFmpeg API.
>
> The library is written in C++, but the public API is C-friendly and
> it's easy to simply include and link directly with a pure C
> application.

I've now imorted the source, I'd be glad for reviews and comments.
I'd really appreciate if some uscan expert coult write a debian/watch
file for this package that downloads updated sources from googlecode and
repacks the 7z source to tar.gz or tar.bz2.

thanks in advance!

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4