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ffmpeg-extra package

  1. Bug #306751
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 306751

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Paul Gevers (paul-climbing) wrote : Re: [Bug 306751] Re: create a virtual package ffmpeg-extras which pulls in all unstripped versions of the libs

> Can you describe a good usecase when a user would want to have
> libavcodec-extra-52 but not ubuntu-restricted-extras?

Well, if you just want to convert your movie from one format to another,
because you want to play the movie on an external device: your
cell-phone, playstation, dvd-player, or rockbox (whatever that is), you
only need the converter, i.e. the unstripped ffmpeg. You don't need
plugins, fonts or unrar to do that (as far as I can tell). I think,
looking at the the winff-forum [1], this is an important usecase for
winff (ffmpeg gui) users.

Basically, I want to suggest/recommend libavcodec-extra-XX for winff,
but because XX can (and thus will) change it would be nice to have some
package-name without the soname.

Paul

[1] http://www.biggmatt.com/forums/