From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ffmpeg. Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:06:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20131101130624.GA13261@debian> References: <20131031221901.GA21979@debian> <87txfw8i8g.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcEQt-00075w-Tp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:06:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcEQm-0005tv-KT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:06:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87txfw8i8g.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@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