FS#19326 - Dirac/Schroedinger support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by h (Cdh) - Sunday, 02 May 2010, 09:34 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 09 May 2010, 22:37 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I asked the question here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96034

Because schroedinger is in [community] the relevant packages in [extra] are compiled without support for playing dirac files,
ffmpeg, vlc and gstreamer (mplayer uses ffmpeg libschroedinger/libdirac to play these videos "fflibschroedinger" I think)

It's unnecessarily hard to play videos encoded with a promising "open" codec while the very restricted codecs it competes with (h.264) work out of the box, when installing few packages from the repos.

With recompiling gstreamer0.10-bad with --enable-dirac it actually works in gstreamer based players but I had no success with vlc and ffmpeg and mplayer.

Since schroedinger should be stable and not need so much maintenance I request it in extra so that everything can be compiled with dirac support.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
ffmpeg & gstreamer / gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins / vlc/ mabye others
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Sunday, 09 May 2010, 22:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  for any other media player open a separate feature request.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 09 May 2010, 17:29 GMT
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins contains schroedinger support now.
Comment by h (Cdh) - Sunday, 09 May 2010, 17:41 GMT
Thanks. :)
I saw it on the mailinglist archive and wondered why there was no feedback here on the bugtracker.
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-May/016734.html

Is it planned for the other mentioned packages too?

mplayer with --enable-libschroedinger-lavc
ffmpeg with --enable-libschroedinger
vlc with --enable-dirac

I'm not sure about mplayer. Does it use ffmpeg or does it have an own codec?
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 09 May 2010, 17:50 GMT
yes, on the next update.

our mplayer doesn't use external ffmpeg and it has an internal ffmpeg version.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 09 May 2010, 20:18 GMT
mplayer-31147 and ffmpeg-23065 contains schroedinger support now.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 09 May 2010, 22:36 GMT
vlc-1.0.6-2 has now support

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