[QUARTZ] Add FFMpeg video wrapper filter (take 3)

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Tue Jun 14 01:50:50 CDT 2005


On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:08:00AM -0600, Brian Vincent wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2005 18:11:14 +0200, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > If there's only a static lib then I guess it's fine. Is that the case
> > on all major distros?
> 
> 
> 
> I just dug through a bunch of distros and no one ships ffmpeg by default. 
> That includes Fedora 4, SuSE 9.2/9.3, Mandriva 10.1, and Slackware 10.1. 
> It's marked "optional" on Debian sarge. 
> I think I ran into this same issue with xine a while ago. I believe they 
> ship ffmpeg, but can't remember.

SUSE does not ship it for the usual legal reasons.

I would suggest making this an addon package for distributions, to drop
it right beside a normal WINE installation when needed. (with dlls and
regsvr and .inf files or so).

Ciao, Marcus



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