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imagemagick package

  1. Bug #59908
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 59908

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Nelson A. de Oliveira (naoliv) wrote : Re: [Bug 59908] Re: identify command requires mpeg2decode

Hi!

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Adam Williamson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> No modern, F/OSS encoder that I've found seems to be able to understand
> .par files. They all expect you to just feed them a series of images
> direct on the command line, which is a completely different system. So
> to migrate ImageMagick from mpeg2encode to something modern you'd have
> to substantially change mpeg.c to just feed out a series of YUV images,
> not write a .par file, and call the delegate properly, *then* change the
> delegate from mpeg2encode to mpeg2enc or ffmpeg or mencoder or whatever
> you want to use. Unfortunately, my (non-existent) C skills don't extend
> to that, really, though I may give it a bash.

We can discuss this with upstream. At least from my experience, they
are very responsive and open to talk about problems, suggestions, etc.

Best regards,
Nelson