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Re: images2mpg missing required components



On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 20:37 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> A number of programs called by the images2mpg script are
> missing in Fedora 8:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> Encoding 44 image(s) MPEG sequence with ImageMagick and MjpegTools.
> 
> /usr/bin/images2mpg: line 850: ppmtoy4m: command not found
> /usr/bin/images2mpg: line 850: yuvscaler: command not found
> /usr/bin/images2mpg: line 850: mpeg2enc: command not found
> Frame Num. 1100 / 1100     
> MPEG encoding terminated [1100 frames - Encoding time : 63 s].
> 
> Merging MPEG flux with MjpegTools.
> /usr/bin/images2mpg: line 896: mplex: command not found
> 
> The video MPEG output file is './0vid.mpg'.
> 
> The output file is not created.

CANTFIX

All those tools are part of mjpegtools which can't be supplied with
Fedora due to patent concerns. The real only way to handle this would be
to split kipi-plugins into a Free package and a non-free package, and
have some other repo host the non-free part.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet gmail com>

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