Being an otaku who sometimes throw himself headlong into things always to leave them on hold (and perhaps the latter is due to the former), I’m pretty interested in fansubbing and in particular in Aegisub, which got notorious for making sweat one’s guts out in order to get it compiled on non-Windows systems. Concerning this, I found an interesting post from my Aegisub-Ubuntu-pusher, here’s the link (Spanish):

http://gargadonscave.uni.cc/2009/12/no-mas-aegisub-hasta-ubuntu-lucid/

And here’s my personal translation:

No more Aegisub until Ubuntu Lucid

As mentioned in the title of the post, unfortunately I can no more release Aegisub until a late Lucid Lynx (10.04) alpha release comes out. That’s not due to me, but (as I suspected from the beginning) to the old FFMpeg dependencies.

Until recently, I took the old FFMpeg versions and edited ./configure in order to make it compatible with Ubuntu. Now the issue is far beyond. Seemingly the code in the latest versions included in /src/audio-provider* and /src/video-provider*, only works if we compile with FFMpegSource instead of FFMpeg.

This implies that we must compile with FFMpegSource support. But what’s the problem again? FFMpeg dependencies included in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (and therefore in earlier versions too) are so much old that they cannot support it. In other words, without FFMpegSource, “make” will end with errors.

Until recently, Aegisub for Ubuntu didn’t require FFMpegSource. It does now, but in order to upgrade FFMpeg, I must install and compile FFMpeg from his source code. Something I’m not doing, since some programs (like Amarok) would stop playing MP3s.

For our Debian Testing (Squeeze at the moment) fellow who use Debian Multimedia repositories, I just updated my installation tutorial for r3855: http://gargadonscave.uni.cc/2009/11/como-compilar-aegisub-en-debian-y-ubuntu/

To prove you I’m not lying, I’ve been able to compile Aegisub r3855 on Debian, here’s the proof:

[image on the original post]

Ummm… as I can see now, video is not loaded on Debian… Guys, getting back at Ubuntu side, though we are stuck to the r3771 😀

That’s all folks, I feel a bit sorry for making you read a so terrible English. Continua la lettura di No more Aegisub until Ubuntu Lucid →