Bugzilla Bug 135221

New theora version, http://www.theora.org/

Release announcement:
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2006-May/001128.html

Changes since the 1.0 alpha 5 release:

    * Merge theora-mmx simd acceleration (x86_32 and x86_64)
    * Major RTP payload specification update
    * Minor format specification updates
    * Fix some spurious calls to free() instead of _ogg_free()
    * Fix invalid array indexing in PixelLineSearch()
    * Improve robustness against invalid input
    * General warning cleanup
    * The offset_y member now means what every application thought 
      it meant (offset from the top). This will mean some old files
      (those with a non-centered image created with a buggy encoder)
      will display differently.

(This can also close bug #103175 as the mmx has been included.)

Version bumping the 1.0-alpha5 ebuild to 1.0-alpha6 and it emerges fine.

Adding a version bumped ebuild, with a patch to address an "oops" in their
configure script, referenced here:
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/2006-June/003015.html

Created an attachment (id=88153) [edit]
USE_ASM configure patch

Created an attachment (id=88154) [edit]
1.0-alpha6 ebuild using USE_ASM configure patch

I would be tempted to simply close as WONTFIX until a new alpha is released as
they released a broken alpha this time, but really broken (asm optimisations
don't compile, and it does not compile without encoder).

But I will wait for lu_zero to say something as he's the xiph expert.

Created an attachment (id=88164) [edit]
Patch to fix USE=-encode

It appears a file was left out of the tarball to allow --disable-encode to
build successfully.  Attached patch puts the file back in (from Xiph's SVN).

I reported this to the theora-dev mailing-list here:
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/2006-June/003017.html

I understand on the WONTFIX, as I think there will be a re-release too.

Let's wait a couple of days now, if they won't release an alpha7 or alpha6a or
whatever, I'll see to patch alpha6 to build :)

I smell another internal snapshot coming on... sigh...

Closing as later waiting for 6a that should be out in a few days.

Spoke to people in #theora

They recommended us to put in alpha6 with the build patches because they are
not sure when alpha6a will be released. (ie may not be soon)

*Sigh* not exactly the saner upstream I'd say at this point -_-

Will work on it now.

Fixed, although I wonder how much would have took them to take the alpha6
tarball, extract, rename the directory, put there the missing file, patch the
other two files, re-compress, and upload as alpha6a...