audio/video software

[Kevin Kofler]

LM wrote:
> Good to know.  Thanks for the information.  I'm still planning on
> giving it a shot to remove the ffmpeg pieces or at least attempt to
> backport webm and some other support to an earlier version.  Don't
> know if the xine project will accept the patches if I get the latest
> version working with an option to turn off/remove ffmpeg support, but
> the project certainly looks doable.

You're just wasting your time. I already looked into it:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-January/160856.html
(The move now happened in Fedora 20. I just kept Fedora 17, 18 and 19 on
1.1.x, which was good enough for me, but eventually the people who really
wanted 1.2 made it happen.)

Removing ffmpeg support is not doable at all. The whole code was ported to
libavutil, e.g. av_mallocz() is used all over the place.

xine-lib is retired in Fedora and will not come back. You'll also stomp on
RPM Fusion's feet if you try to resurrect xine-lib in Fedora, because it is
now in RPM Fusion with the same package name.

The xine-lib situation has already been discussed ad nauseam:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-January/160856.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/185020.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-October/thread.html#190132
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2857
Please search the list archives before proposing such a thing.

        Kevin Kofler