On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Harry Rickards <harry@linux.com> wrote:
> Just like to say to everyone that I'm currently packaging LiVES, and
> although I've hit a couple of problems hope to have a review request
> on bugzilla within the next couple of days.


How functional is it without mplayer?  And does the runtime detection
work such that if you install mplayer from rpmfusion full
functionality is recovered?


Without mplayer, you would be limited to the following formats (assuming you had all the other required libs installed):

decoding:

dv (audio and video)
ogg/theora (no audio)
animted gif

multiple images (i.e animation sequences)
generators (e.g. title generators)

external window and desktop capturing

clip imports from other copies of LiVES


encoding:
dv (via libdv)
ogg/theora (via encoder_example)
animated gif
flash/swf (using multiple jpeg)
pdf

mjpeg/pcm (possibly) via transcode



If a user installs mplayer/mencoder after installing LiVES, then they will inherit whatever functionality is in mplayer/mencoder.



Regards,
Salsaman.