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x264 package

UVF Exception Request: x264 to svn20060928 from marillat

Bug #63842 reported by John Dong on 2006-10-03

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
avidemux (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned
mplayer (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned
x264 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Due to understandably swamped MOTU Media folks, x264 has not been updated for a while. It is still very much an in-development project, with constant and significant improvements even in short frames of time.

debian-marillat has 20060928 from svn. I have pbuilder'ed and tested this in Edgy, including rebuilding mplayer and avidemux (the only two that build against x264-dev) against it. Mplayer works great, but avidemux doesn't build. I'm looking into what needs to be done. I see faster encode speeds, and better quality even on turbo settings. Since apps get statically linked against avidemux, it's not the end of the world, and I'd personally say the benefit still current outweighs the setback.

This is definitely very worthwhile to get into Edgy, and it's just a shame it didn't happen earlier.

I will post changelogs and the other necessary information.

See original description

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2006-10-03:

http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/x/x264/x264_0.cvs20060928.orig.tar.gz
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/x/x264/x264_0.cvs20060928-0.0.dsc
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/x/x264/x264_0.cvs20060928-0.0.diff.gz

Just in case it wasn't clear, these were the marillat sources I used, unmodified.

John Dong (jdong) on 2006-10-03

description:

updated

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2006-10-03:

avidemux api patch Edit (708 bytes, text/plain)

Here's the patch that avidemux needs.

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2006-10-03:

diffstat Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain)

diffstat between the two svn snapshots.

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2006-10-03:

svn changelog Edit (6.9 KiB, text/plain)

svn changelog.

Changed in x264:
assignee:	nobody → motu-uvf
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2006-10-04:

I think this was good research including investigation of reverse build depends. From the report I see here, I tend to agree.

Slomo and Nafallo know better about the current status in mplayer, if they have no objections to this I'd say, lets get that in! (along with the patch for avidemux, that is).

Changed in x264:
assignee:	motu-uvf → nobody

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-10-04:

Humhum, can somebody from the Media team share an opinion about it?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-10-04:

Ok, I agree with Reinhard.

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2006-10-05:

slomo, nafallo, can you please do the sync and avidemux rebuild? thanks!

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote on 2006-10-11:

#10

Sync request for x264 ACKed; ok to override Ubuntu changes.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-10-12:

#11

[Updating] x264 (1:0.cvs20060720-0.0ubuntu1 [Ubuntu] < 1:0.cvs20060928-0.0 [www.debian-multimedia.org])
* Trying to add x264...
  - <x264_0.cvs20060928-0.0.dsc: downloading from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>
  - <x264_0.cvs20060928.orig.tar.gz: downloading from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>
  - <x264_0.cvs20060928-0.0.diff.gz: downloading from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>
I: x264 [multiverse] -> libx264-dev_1:0.cvs20060720-0.0ubuntu1 [multiverse].
I: x264 [multiverse] -> x264-bin_1:0.cvs20060720-0.0ubuntu1 [multiverse].

Changed in x264:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2006-10-12:

#12

Also marked mplayer as affected. Needs a rebuild -- no source changes necessary.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun) on 2006-10-12

Changed in avidemux:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in mplayer:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Fix Committed