Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

OK, I'll do that.

Thanks for that - I missed it, being on the second page! I am updating the Mandriva package to 6.4.2-10 and will test the fix.

I can't think of anything better. The only other obvious thing that comes to mind is transcode, but at least on MDV, transcode's deps are rather heavier than ffmpeg's. I think ffmpeg is the best option. So if anyone else disagrees, speak now or forever hold your peace =)

Thanks a lot for that.

Well, first point, they're not actually related: mpeg2dec is part of libmpeg2 - http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ - while mpeg2enc is part of mjpegtools . Actually completely separate projects. But aside from that, yeah, mpeg2dec would be the logical choice (smaller and I think fewer deps than ffmpeg...

I can't get my patch attempt working. :\ Details in the Launchpad report.

For now I'll see if it's possible to centralize discussion of this issue here and in Launchpad - maybe if we can pull in the various places it's been discussed, we'll find someone who has the smarts to fix it.

See my comment on the Ubuntu bug on this issue here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/59908 I think I have a patch that will be good for decoding, but encoding is substantially trickier, as no usable modern encoder understands the .par file system that mpeg2encode uses, so ...

Yes, but I try to avoid distro-specific stuff and work with upstream wherever possible. That and I have to figure out how to crowbar it in and adjust the parameters accordingly. =)

One of these patches likely fixes it: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/mjpegtools/current/SOURCES/ mjpegtools is pretty widely available and used. I know mpeg2encode cannot be made available in Fedora because of the licensing issue (I've discussed this with Fedora's licensi...

Hi, there. I thought I'd reported this somewhere before but can't find any trace of it, so I'm doing it again. :) ImageMagick relies on the 'mpeg2encode' tool for some MPEG video operations. There's a problem here. mpeg2encode is not free / open source software. Its license terms - you can see them ...