[theora-dev] ptalarbvorm - presece on launchpad

[Alexey Fisher]

Am Sonntag, den 19.09.2010, 18:06 +0200 schrieb j at v2v.cc:
> Hi,
> 
> > - prebuilded ptalarbvorm from firefodgg is broken on amd64. ppa provide
> > working 64bit libtheora.
> could you let me know how it fails. there was a bug in ptalarbvorm on
> 32bit compiles, did not check if that is fixed now. if that is still
> around, you would be hit by that since the nightly builds are 32bit.

I take my words back, it working now.

> > - it work not only for encode but for decode too.
> > - it work for gstreamer and other app using this libs.
> 
> if you just update libtheora, the version of ffmpeg2theora using the
> shared lib should just use that. versions of ffmpeg2theora in
> debian/ubuntu are outdated though since the version of libav* available
> is to old. it would be possible to create a version of ffmpeg2theora
> that builds its own version of libav* though, had that in my ppa for
> some time but did not find the time to keep it up to date.
> 
> if you have a good setup for doing regular updates,
> possibly we can have svn builds in
>  https://launchpad.net/~theora/+archive/ppa
> 
> not sure its worth the trouble,
> j

I will spend some time to do it in my playground, after this I will see
it it worth the trouble.

Currently i have working (hacky) script to do it for libtheora.
xorg-edgers have really advanced script to keep complete xorg up to
date.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/xorg-server/xorg-pkg-tools/annotate/head%3A/auto-xorg-git