John Burrell wrote:

>
> I think some comments in the book are needed now.
>
> I know you can't cover all possible build options, but the multimedia
> packages are popular with the blfs community and some guidance would
> be welcome. May be could you add some references so we can go and
> read for ourselves.
>
> I know I spend a lot of time not really knowing exactly what I should
> be installing to support a certain media player. So I probably
> install more than is required - just to cover my derrière. For
> example I use VLC to play movies. It is based on ffmpeg so I assume I
> should stick with the 0.10 versions of the gst plugins.

The vlc instructions show a dependency of FFmpeg-0.11.2, so use that.

So questions
> which immediately arise for me are, amongst other -
>
> Who deprecated ffmpeg?

I suspect the gnome developers.

> Will VLC continue to be based on ffmpeg?

That's an upstream decision.

> Why do I need libav?

totem, cheese, brasero, gnome-shell, gstreamer10, farstream, libnice, 
webkit, clutter.

   -- Bruce


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