Comment 18 for bug 457732

OK,

I've contacted the mailinglist detailing the issue by paraphrasing my posts here, I will wait to hear back. If a static ffmpeg can be employed is that a change you're willing to make? It would open your app up to virtually any distribution. The whole handling of multimedia apps and libs by Debian and Ubuntu make a strong case for why Linux as a Desktop is doomed unless Debian (and their derivatives like Ubuntu) get their act together. Developers shouldn't have to package and packagers/distributors shouldn't have to fix dependencies for developers. These comments are nor directed at you personally but trying to prepare a pre-packaged multimedia distro for folks from other platforms to try in a user friendly way is so hampered by this "proprietary" type of thinking it is extremely frustrating =(!