Medibuntu releases uncrippled ffmpeg!

Written for Blacklight by ChrisLees on 2009-12-14

Karmic Users - you can remove your self-compiled ffmpeg now. The Medibuntu repository has pushed out an update today that re-enables AAC encoding support in FFMPEG, so update ASAP.

In other Blacklight news, the development version will put thumbnails of your videos onto your Walkman. There's currently one bug that I've noticed on the X-series involving WMV files, but as soon as this is resolved you can expect a new version of Blacklight3 CLI.

The development version also allows you to specify the ffmpeg location, for advanced users, in /etc/blacklight.ffmpeg. This feature was implemented to help get around Ubuntu 9.10's lack of AAC encoding, but now it's not necessary. Still, it will be in there.

The version after next should see some more love for the GUI package, and possibly packages for other distributions. If you'd like to volunteer to package Blacklight for any distributions other than Ubuntu, please contact me at christopher_NOSPAMlees@iprimus.com.au. To facilitate this I'm considering moving away from Launchpad as it is fairly attached to Ubuntu (how many Fedora users look on Launchpad for software?) and because Launchpad is massively overkill, even difficult, for the small scope of this project.