[packman] opensuse 11.3 opal package (for ekiga) supporting H.263, H.264 and MPEG4

[James Bottomley]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:50 +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> 2011/2/3 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at suse.de>:
> >>  The package is built with the codecs support in the
> >> home:RedDwarf:multimedia repo (still I would like to see it in
> >> Packman), to easily test.
> >> The spec file (https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?project=GNOME:Factory&package=opal&file=opal.spec)
> >> explains everything using the format from
> >> http://old-en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Patches, upstream bug reports
> >> included.
> >
> > OK, I can pretty much use that one then.
> 
> That package doesn't splits "opal-nonfree-codecs" in its own package.
> So it would be great if you could send that, and any other
> improvement, from your package to the GNOME:Factory one. After that
> Packman should still link the package since home:RedDwarf:multimedia
> is little more than a hack and what users really use is Packman.

After a little more research, I got a preliminary H.264 patch that fixes
the blockiness and time delay ... I still have a problem with the frame
rate, which is way too low, but I think it's sufficient to make the
codec usable.  I've bundled up the patch and added it to
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596006 so we'll see if they
take it.

Next step will be to analyse exactly what Gnome:Factory has done and see
if I can make the package split work.

James