[ITP] libmatroska - Open audio/video container format library

David Stacey drstacey@tiscali.co.uk
Sat May 30 11:14:00 GMT 2015


# 32-bit:
BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/119453582/Cygwin/32bit/release
wget --no-check-certificate --no-host-directories --force-directories 
--cut-dirs=5 \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-1.4.2-1-src.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-debuginfo/libmatroska-debuginfo-1.4.2-1.tar.xz 
\
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-debuginfo/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-devel/libmatroska-devel-1.4.2-1.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-devel/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska6/libmatroska6-1.4.2-1.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska6/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/setup.hint


# 64-bit:
BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/119453582/Cygwin/64bit/release
wget --no-check-certificate --no-host-directories --force-directories 
--cut-dirs=5 \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-1.4.2-1-src.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-debuginfo/libmatroska-debuginfo-1.4.2-1.tar.xz 
\
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-debuginfo/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-devel/libmatroska-devel-1.4.2-1.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska-devel/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska6/libmatroska6-1.4.2-1.tar.xz \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/libmatroska6/setup.hint \
${BASEURL}/libmatroska/setup.hint


libmatroska is a C++ library to parse Matroska files (*.mkv, *.mka). It 
requires libebml [1].

libmatroska is present in most Linux distros [2]. It's also present in 
Cygwin Ports, albeit at an earlier version, so Yaakov should have first 
refusal at maintaining this. However, mkvtoolnix needs to be built 
against a very specific version of libmatroska, so it makes sense for 
the same person to maintain both packages.


Dave.

[1] - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-05/msg00088.html
[2] - http://pkgs.org/search/libmatroska



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