Re: git: 947a56b365f3 - main - multimedia/winff: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2024-02-29

From: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists_at_pyret.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:46:17 UTC
On 2024-01-21T22:53:06.000+01:00, Thierry Thomas <thierry@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> Le ven. 19 janv. 24 à 18:45:34 +0100, Thierry Thomas <thierry@freebsd.org>
> 
>  écrivait :
> 
>>  Sorry, but I do not understand this commit: if GTK2 is
>>  deprecated, only
>>  
>>   the GTK2 flavor should be marked as deprecated, not the Qt ones.
>>  
>>   In addition, you should not deprecate the GTK2 consumers one by
>>  one, but
>>  
>>   directly in Mk/Uses/lazarus.mk [http://lazarus.mk].
> 
> Without an explanation from you, I just reverted this commit.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Th. Thomas.

Sorry, I got distracted and missed your mail.

While GTK2 is going to be killed in the somewhat near future it also
fails to do what it's designed to do namely transcode to anything
modern. As I wrote in the commit, it doesn't support "current
available formats". It isn't aware of anything that's recent by a
decade, such as h264, h265 or av1 which all are common formats/codec.
Audio is even more odd with no selections at all and container support
also seems poor at best. I did even list an alternative which does all
this and is actively maintained.

Best regards,

Daniel