Ubuntu
libtheora package

Outdated Ogg Theora library, no encoder

Bug #6381 reported by Timo Jyrinki on 2006-01-03

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libtheora (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
	Dapper	Fix Released	Medium	MOTU Media Team

Bug Description

As the debian package maintainer hasn't done any updates in almost a year, the ogg theora package(s) in Ubuntu are also outdated. Please upgrade to 1.0alpha5. At the same time, please enable the compilation of libtheora-bin package, which is needed for encoding Ogg Theora content and was disabled because sarge was upcoming and build queues were long.

The new version has at least important encoding bug fixes. It might also be that beta1 could be out in time for dapper, so please keep an eye on it.

You may or may not find the following page useful: http://www.iki.fi/tjyrinki/proj_info.html#convtheora (specially the diff between latest Debian NMU update patch from last April to what was needed to compile 1.0alpha5 with libtheora-bin re-enabled)

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2006-01-05

Changed in libtheora:
assignee:	nobody → motumedia

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote on 2006-01-05:

Ok, I've updated it to alpha5...
But I haven't enabled libtheora-bin as I wanted to prevent conflicts with Debian later when they decide to enable it with another package name and don't think it is too useful anyway... If you disagree please tell me and I'll enable it later

Changed in libtheora:
status:	New → Fixed
status:	New → Fixed

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Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote on 2006-01-05:

Okay, thanks! And I misphrased, libtheora-bin is of course not required for encoding, only if the example encoder is wanted to be used (like I do with those scripts), but it's not really your average end-user encoder program anyway (requires YUV and PCM data). For universe it'd be nice, but we can also just wait and see what debian does.