From: sramacher@debian.org   
      
   Control: tags -1 wontfix   
      
   On 2026-02-15 18:49:10 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:   
   >   
   > Package: ffmpeg   
   > Version: 7:8.0.1-1   
   > Tags: patch   
   >   
   > With the introduction of whisper.cpp in Debian, it became possible to   
   > enable the Whisper filter in ffmpeg, allowing quick and automatic   
   > transcript of audio using GPU backed audio processing.   
   >   
   > Following the recipe available from   
   >    
   > I just successfully was able to use the latest ffmpeg from salsa with   
   > the following patch to transcribe the example from that article, ie   
   > using this command:   
   >   
   >   ffmpeg -i https://github.com/vpalmisano/webrtcperf/releases/   
   ownload/videos-1.0/gvr.mp4 -vn -af "whisper=model=$HOME/models-w   
   isper/ggml-model-q5_0.bin\   
   > :language=en\   
   > :queue=3\   
   > :destination=output.srt\   
   > :format=srt" -f null -   
   >   
   > The resulting output.srt contained a sensible transcript of the video.   
   >   
   > Please consider enabling whisper support in the ffmpeg edition provided   
   > by Debian.   
      
   Not at the moment. whisper.cpp and its (build-)dependencies are not in   
   testing and looking at their current state they are not ready to be   
   promoted to key packages.   
      
   Cheers   
      
   >   
   > diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control   
   > index e0fa35ce..2ecf3219 100644   
   > --- a/debian/control   
   > +++ b/debian/control   
   > @@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ Build-Depends:   
   >   libzvbi-dev ,   
   >  # --enable-opencl   
   >   ocl-icd-opencl-dev | opencl-dev,   
   > +# --enable-whisper   
   > + libwhisper-dev,   
   >  # used to detect libraries   
   >   pkgconf,   
   >  # HTML documentation   
   > diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules   
   > index 6b3da34f..a2c128f0 100755   
   > --- a/debian/rules   
   > +++ b/debian/rules   
   > @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ CONFIG := \   
   >         --enable-libxml2 \   
   >         --enable-libxvid \   
   >         --enable-libzimg \   
   > +       --enable-whisper \   
   >         --enable-openal \   
   >         --enable-opencl \   
   >         --enable-opengl   
   >   
   > --   
   > Happy hacking   
   > Petter Reinholdtsen   
   >   
      
   --   
   Sebastian Ramacher   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)