Package LiVES for Debian

[daniel@…]

The LiVES dependency Mplayer is now in Debian unstable, but LiVES does not have a Debian package, see:

http://lives.sourceforge.net/

We should create a Debian package as a first step to testing LiVES on 64 Studio. Debian's Mplayer package depends on patent-encumbered libmad, so we would need to distribute custom Mplayer package.

[free@…]

There's lives package in Marillat's repository, but it depends on mjpegtools, which is not in Debian, I suspect to to legal issues.

However Ubuntu does distribute it:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/graphics/mjpegtools

so I guess it could be legal for us as well. I'm wondering why Debian is not shipping it then..

[daniel@…]

mjpegtools definitely includes an mpeg encoder, so our lives package needs to be built without a dependency on it. In the meantime we can try Marillat's version using the Debian package of mplayer. If it works OK, we can then build a lives package and upload it to Debian.