[gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Luca Barbato]

Those 6 packages do not look maintained and have different issues.

avifile: superseded by ffmpeg, xine and, yet to be in portage due some 
packing issue (it has to be snapshotted as ffmpeg), mlt.

vcr: superseded by mplayer/mencoder and ffmpeg, not maintained anymore?

zphoto: not maintained I'm afraid.

drip: not maintained, superseded by different mencoder front-ends

divx4linux: superseded by ffmpeg and xvid

quicktime4linux: superseded by libquicktime

There are some ebuild that could depend on avifile or seems to have 
avifile as an hard dependency (jahshaka to name an actively developed 
one) but looks like it could be replaced.

expected phase out time: 25 days.

If you are against that please speak now.

lu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> writes:

Luca> avifile: superseded by ffmpeg, xine and ... mlt.

Do they offer all of the cli tools that avifile does?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Luca Barbato]

James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>>"Luca" == Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> 
> Luca> avifile: superseded by ffmpeg, xine and ... mlt.
> 
> Do they offer all of the cli tools that avifile does?

If you are referring to avicap I think that there are other capture 
tools in portage (media-tv field anyway)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Andrej Kacian]

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On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:33:58 +0200
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:

> zphoto: not maintained I'm afraid.

"Not maintained and working", or "not maintained and FUBARed" ?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Sunday 16 October 2005 00:05, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> "Not maintained and working", or "not maintained and FUBARed" ?
"Not maintained and depending on something not maintained and that is giving 
headaches to the ones who should take care of it", I'd say :)

That is one of the packages that depends on avifile, that has quite a bit of 
problems, and has no more releases since a long time, and is giving problems 
with newer version of libraries and stuff.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Marc Hildebrand]

Luca Barbato wrote:
> Those 6 packages do not look maintained and have different issues.
> 
> avifile: superseded by ffmpeg, xine and, yet to be in portage due some 
> packing issue (it has to be snapshotted as ffmpeg), mlt.

Ooops. Is someone working on mlt too?
I have some working ebuilds somewhere but I'm *very* busy atm so I can't 
test it. (And there are other packags that have a high priority too.

Cheers,
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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Luca Barbato]

Marc Hildebrand wrote:

> 
> Ooops. Is someone working on mlt too?
> I have some working ebuilds somewhere but I'm *very* busy atm so I can't 
> test it. (And there are other packags that have a high priority too.

Got interested bug got overbusy too =/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Luca Barbato]

Luca Barbato wrote:
[snip]

avifile will be removed tomorrow since mlt and mlt++ (required by 
jahshaka as avifile replacement) will be released tomorrow.

If you are maintaining or using one of the packages in the list keep in 
mind that it will be removed in 24h if aren't avifile free.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

[Duncan]

Luca Barbato posted <438903F2.5030308@gentoo.org>, excerpted below,  on
Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:55:14 +0100:

> Luca Barbato wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> avifile will be removed tomorrow since mlt and mlt++ (required by jahshaka
> as avifile replacement) will be released tomorrow.
> 
> If you are maintaining or using one of the packages in the list keep in
> mind that it will be removed in 24h if aren't avifile free.

I have very little idea what I'm talking about here, but that's why the
questions...

I have mjpegtools listed as dependant on avifile, and transcode dependant
on mjpegtools, and transcode installed for k3b.

Looking at the ebuild, the version hasn't been bumped, but it no longer
has the avi USE flag or avifile dependancy.  Shouldn't the -r# be bumped,
so folks don't end up with an mjpegtools that doesn't work, or is it not
cross-linked to a library, only calling an independant executable (avicap,
maybe?).   I don't see any indication that mjpegtools works with the
replacements?

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