Changeset 4fd52a9

Timestamp:

09/14/2012 11:46:07 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

4520f55

Parents:

81450e5

Message:

Put in a Note in transcode, to replace the comment about the patch, and expand the entry on tccat.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@10666 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• multimedia/videoutils/transcode.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

general.ent

@@ -4 +4 @@
 -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "13">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "14">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "09">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2012">
@@ -10 +10 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "September 13th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "September 14th, &year;">
 <!-- <!ENTITY releasedate  "November &day;st, &year;"> -->
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -53 +53 @@
           <para>[rthomsen] - Qt 4.8.3.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - change the comment about ffmpeg functionality
+          in transcode to a note.</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>

multimedia/videoutils/transcode.xml

@@ -80 +80 @@
           Required patch:
           <ulink url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-ffmpeg-1.patch"/>
-          : Note that although this allows <application>transcode</application>
-          to compile with current <application>ffmpeg</application>, it fails if
-          it calls ffmpeg at runtime, e.g. for certain format conversions.  The
-          remaining parts of the application, such as <command>tccat</command>,
-          work and <command>ffmpeg</command> can be invoked outside of
-          <command>transcode</command> if needed.
         </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -136 +130 @@
     <title>Installation of Transcode</title>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>The details of how the <application>ffmpeg</application> libraries
+      are used has changed since this version of
+      <application>transcode</application> was released. The patch allows the
+      package to be compiled, but some or all of the internal calls to
+      <application>ffmpeg</application> fail at run time (they report an error
+      and processing continues, but without any output).</para>
+
+      <para>For many packages, that would be a critical error. In this case,
+      the main reason to install <application>transcode</application> is for
+      the <command>tccat</command> program, which works.  Some of the
+      <command>transcode</command> options work - for the others, use
+      <command>ffmpeg</command> directly on the command line.</para>
+    </note>
+
     <para>
       Install <application>Transcode</application> by running the following
@@ -270 +279 @@
           <para>
             concatenates input files using the input plugins of
-            <application>Transcode</application>.
+            <application>Transcode</application>.  This is useful
+            for extracting VOB (Video OBject) files.
           </para>
           <indexterm zone="transcode tccat">