On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:41:24AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > I am increasingly unsatisfied with libav and I think that we may need > to have ffmpeg back in Debian, perhaps having the installation in > parallel. ffmpeg actually has a bunch of features that libav doesn't > (support for OpenCL, many filters, like video stabilization, > concatenation of files from the command line etc.) > > It really sucks that we are stuck with libav in Debian.
I can't argue with that; I have no particular bias for or against libav in terms of project politics, and in terms of technical capability libav doesn't seem capable of keeping up. (Why they're not just automatically incorporating every new upstream changes from ffmpeg I don't know.) At least at the moment, I think it would make sense to upload ffmpeg in parallel with libav; unless there's some strong technical argument in favor of libav, we should probably then work towards a transition among packages that currently build-depend on libav. That would also make it easier to solve various other problems, such as getting mythtv into Debian. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
