Comment 23 for bug 93849

Hi Reinhard,

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 07:00:43AM -0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Mantas Kriaučiūnas <email address hidden> writes:
> > Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> already created ffmpeg deb
> > packages with AMRNB and AMRWB format support, I found packages for
> > Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) at Medibuntu-maintainers package archive
>
> the problem with that approach is that it creates a hard dependency on
> the libamr packages, which are totally unredistributable and cannot
> possibly included into ubuntu proper.

Are you soru, that ffmpeg packages created by <email address hidden> creates
hard dependancy? According to the changelog, these ffmpeg packages adds
libamr support via dlopen(), this is runtime libamr detection, so, no hard
dependancies on the libamr packages. I can paste changelog from patched
ffmpeg packages for Ubuntu 8.10 again:

ffmpeg (3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3+unstripped5+amr1) intrepid; urgency=low
  * debian/patches/60_dlopen_libamr.diff: add libamr support via dlopen().
    (LP: #93849)
  * debian/patches/series: add the above patch.
  * debian/confflags: pass --enable-libamrnbbin and --enable-libamrwbbin.
   -- Lionel Le Folgoc < <email address hidden>> Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:54:09

> What could be included would be perhaps the headers. If somone would
> contribute a patch against libavcodec to load these libraries at
> runtime, we wouldn't need to distribute the amr packages. Hint: The
> altlinux guys do ship such a patch, but it needs cleanups.
>
> --
> Can't hear audio from 3GP video files: AMR audio support missing in ffmpeg
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93849

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