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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ffmpeg.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:06:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131101130624.GA13261@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txfw8i8g.fsf@gnu.org>

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:38:23PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > +    (synopsis "audio and video framework")
> Start with a capital letter.

Okay, I corrected and pushed it.

Notice that there are plenty of optional inputs, so that people wishing to
train their packaging skills have lots of opportunity to add the corresponding
libraries to the distribution. For a beginner, I would in particular suggest
opus: It is probably just a matter of copy-pasting a package from oggvorbis.scm.

> Thus, I’m inclined to use FFmpeg by default in video applications.
> Thoughts?

Well, I would be inclined to do the same, as ffmpeg is the name I know,
and with respect to functionality and security updates, it looks like they
are a tiny bit ahead.

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-01 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-31 22:19 [PATCH] gnu: Add ffmpeg Andreas Enge
2013-11-01 11:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-01 13:06   ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2013-11-01 23:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-02  7:47   ` Andreas Enge
2013-11-27 22:50     ` Andreas Enge
2013-11-30 20:44       ` Andreas Enge
2013-11-30 23:12         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-12-01 14:51           ` Andreas Enge
2013-12-02 12:38             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-12-02 17:12           ` Jason Self
2013-12-01  7:06         ` John Darrington

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