Bug#389904: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: Package web page misleading -- ffmpeg encoders are disabled

[David Liontooth]

Package: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Version: 0.10.1-2
Severity: normal


It took me quite a while to figure out why ffenc-mpeg4 wasn't working -- it's been disabled. It would be very useful if the 
documentation could reflect this. The web page at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg claims "The plugin 
contains GStreamer elements for encoding 40+ formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV, ...)", but in fact it doesn't contain any.

I take it the discussion about whether this is necessary has already taken place; it seems odd every single one had to go.

Cheers,
Dave


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-4   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0         0.10.10-1     Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libxml2                    2.6.26.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.3-13    compression library - runtime

gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg recommends no packages.

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