[FFe] Please sync mlt 0.7.4-3 (universe) from debian unstable (main)

[Jonathan Thomas]

Please sync mlt from debian unstable (0.7.4-3). MLT is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting and for example needed by kdenlive and OpenShot. 0.7.4-3 brings many bug fixes, and is considered a "minor bug fix release" according to the author. Version 0.7.4-3 also fixes some bugs with OpenShot 1.3.1-1, so it's highly recommended that we sync this version.

Debian changelog(s) since 0.7.2-1 (the current version):

mlt (0.7.4-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add patch from Stephane Fillod, to enable motionest on all architectures.
     Closes: #638622
 -- Patrick Matthäi <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:03:38 +0200

mlt (0.7.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add patch 01-kfbsd-ftbfs, to fix an FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD.
     Closes: #634210
 -- Patrick Matthäi <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:48:20 +0200

mlt (0.7.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Build with dh_python2 and install files to dist-packages instead of
     site-packages. Also fixes lintian's python-debug-in-wrong-location.
     Beer promised to Evgeni Golov.
 -- Patrick Matthäi <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:28:12 +0200

Author changelog for 0.7.4-3:

This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release.

Framework
* Important: change consumer property profile to mlt_profile.
* Improve frame-dropping and drop_max property to mlt_consumer.
* Added support for presets for any service through special property named "properties"
* Added mlt_profile_from_producer() for auto-profile.
* Added mlt_properties_set_lcnumeric() and mlt_properties_get_lcnumeric().
* Added LC_NUMERIC to YAML Tiny metadata schema and parser.

Modules
* Added support for more than 2 channels of greater than 16-bit audio.
* Added discrete filters for each SoX effect.
* Added discrete filters for each LADSPA audio plugin.
* Added automatic service metadata for SoX and LADSPA plugins.
* Added at least basic metadata for nearly every service.
* Added support for decklink on Windows (tested) and Mac OS X (untested).
* Added support for JACK transport synchronization.
* Added blacklist.txt to jackrack plugin (contains dssi-vst).
* Rewrite of decklink consumer.
* Added support for live network, multi-stream device, and pipe/fifo sources in avformat producer.
* Added LC_NUMERIC attribute to root XML element.

Melt
* Added '-query presets' option.
* Added -jack option for transport synchronization.
* Send -help and -query output to stdout to make it convenient for pagers.

Other
* Added mlt.Frame.get_image() for Python.
* Removed configure option --avformat-svn.
* Fixes for locales that use comma for decimal point.
* Added presets for DVD, DV, x264, and WebM encoding.

Since FFmpeg forked and there were a few releases, there is no recommended version at this time. With that said, there were changes to accomodate the API changes with some moderate testing of the 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8 series releases of both FFmpeg and Libav.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This needs an FFe. Unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors and subscribing ubuntu-release.

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

I have successfully built MLT 0.7.4-3 using pbuilder for ubuntu 11.10, and attached the pbuilder build log, and the dpkg install logs. I tested this new version with OpenShot 1.3.1 and OpenShot 1.4.0 (coming very soon) on Ubuntu 11.10, and everything works great.

I think I have included all the necessary files for a freeze exception. MLT 0.7.4-3 fixes many issues with OpenShot and Kdenlive, and needs to be synced before the release of Ubuntu 11.10. If I've forgotten any debug files / build logs / etc... please let me know.

Thanks!
-Jonathan

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Ack. FFe approved. Subscribing sponsors again for you. :-)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

sync request ACK'd

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

synced

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Wow! You guys are fast. Thanks a bunch.
-Jonathan