Thursday, June 01, 2023

Re: Removing transcode

On 6/1/23 19:25, Brad Smith wrote:
> I'd like to remove the multimedia/transcode port.
>
The commit messages there don't seem super enthusiastic, so maybe it
does warrant removal.

otoh it does seem to work so far...

Can the functionality be replicated using something in ports? I don't
use it so someone else would have to check it out.

> It has been long unmaintained upstream and does not build with newer
> FFmpeg.
> Although patches have been cobbled together over the years to keep it
> building
> with newer versions of FFmpeg, to date it has always been somewhat
> fragile.
>
> Also removing graphics/dvdrip and multimedia/subtitleripper which are
> dependent
> on transcode and are equally as old and unmaintained.
>

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