Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Drip - savannah.gnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:34:16AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Jarl van Katwijk <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Drip
> System name: drip
> Type: GNU
> 
> Description:
>   Drip is a DVD to DIVX transcode application. It\'s made up out two 
> applications: a DVD reader and a DIVX encoder. The reader is a GUI for the 
> GNOME environment, the DIVX encoder a text mode tool. You wont have to learn 
> to use the textmode tool, because the GUI also is a frontend for it. Drip is 
> not yet usable for NTSC (Region1) DVDs because those are prepared differently 
> as PAL DVDs.
> 
> Other Software Required:
>     * A recent version (1.2 or later) of the GNOME environment.
>     * nasm and automake-1.5 or later to compile.
>     * A Unix OS with GNU development and DVD support (UDF or ISO9660), like 
> linux 2.4
>     * libdvdcss-1.2.2 for handling DVD data.
>     * libdvdread-0.9.3 for parsing DVD disk info.
>     * For mpeg2 and a52 decoding, install both libmpeg2 0.2.1 and liba52
>     * avifile 0.7.26 or later for divx;-) encoding.

Don't you have to install proprietary software such as libdivxencore,
libdixdecore or Windows codecs to use avifile + divx?

According to Debian's avifile desscription: "Separate local instalation of
Windows DLL codecs might be needed for the optimal usage of this player."

Please comment on this. We do not want to host software that will run better
on proprietary systems than in free systems.

Regards,
Jaime