[FFmpeg-devel] adding ffmpeg mainline to ubuntu

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2084811
> >
> > Apart from the fact that the thread looks old and
> > inactive: Why should the maintainer suddenly allow this?
> 
> It would be a new maintainer for a separate package, 
> or at least I assume so...

I'll be the first to congratulate you if you will 
be proven correct!

(And I agree that a static ffmpeg - and ffplay - binary 
would be a large step in the right direction.)

Carl Eugen