QuteCom for Debian
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Video support
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QuteCom video support depends on MPEG-based video codecs of ffmpeg libraries.
These codecs, however, have been removed from official Debian packages since
version 0.cvs20070307-6 of ffmpeg code because of patent problems.

Video support can be enabled without recompiling QuteCom, by just installing a
non-stripped version of ffmpeg. You should be able to find them in 3rd-party
repositories like debian-multimedia.org (or in the multiverse repository for
Ubuntu).

In particular, for QuteCom, you need:
    libavcodec-unstripped
    libavutil-unstripped
    libswscale-unstripped

WARNING: Those encoders are covered by patents which are actively enforced in
some countries. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

For more details, see the README.Debian file [1] enclosed in the Debian package
of the ffmpeg libraries.

[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-multimedia/unstable/ffmpeg-debian/debian/README.Debian?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

 -- Ludovico Cavedon <ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com>  Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:10:22 -0800
