ffmpeg issues

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 24 July 2007 at 20:30, Jack Tanner wrote:
> If I try to mix freshrpms and livna repos on F7 I get irritating 
> conflicts that involve libdts and the like. I'm not the only one. For 
> example, here's a very similar issue:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=563670
> 
> If I disable freshrpms altogether, I manage to install vlc and mplayer 
> and such, but that's just ignoring the problem.

Indeed. That's because livna and freshrpms overlap and when they do,
they're not always compatible. We're working on a single merged repository,
but work is progressing very slowly.

> Another problem, and I don't know whether the root cause is the same, 
> but perhaps it is, is that gstreamer doesn't play some AAC/MP4 files for 
> me that it should be able to play. (Xine plays them OK.)

No idea here, I don't use either.

> Is there something fishy with ffmpeg, faad2 and friends? I don't really 
> understand all those interdependencies, I just want my tunes to rock. :)

The fishy thing is that faad2 has changed its license to something
we at livna think makes it non-distributable, so we stuck with the
last version before license change. But since freshrpms ships 2.5 and
people installing it kept running into weird problems with ffmpeg,
I've added explicit Requires: faad2 < 2.5 to prevent it.

I hope that explains it.

Regards,
R.

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