On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 11:46:32PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > But, in the interest of full disclosure, I can only say that, some months > ago, I dropped by on libav's IRC channel asking about if libav had video > stabilization (if you don't know what this is, just check this out and be > amazed: http://youtu.be/HYE3KAl8RAQ), since ffmpeg had it for some time.
Wow. > I have, BTW, both filed an ITP bug and packaged libvidstab: > > http://bugs.debian.org/709193 Do any video players currently in Debian have the ability to use this library? > On Oct 04 2013, Josh Triplett wrote: > > and in terms of technical capability libav doesn't seem capable of keeping > > up. > > Perfectly the situation. > > > (Why they're not just automatically incorporating every new upstream > > changes from ffmpeg I don't know.) > > According to said ffmpeg developer, ffmpeg incorporates every change from > libav, while the converse is not true. Makes no sense to me; seems like as long as both projects are active there's no sense in not merging in every new change (modulo any technical disagreements on how to implement them, but I know of no such issues here). > > 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. > > Would you be interested in helping maintain ffmpeg in Debian with me? Happily; I'd be happy to collaborate on packaging via git. > > That would also make it easier to solve various other problems, such as > > getting mythtv into Debian. > > Not only that, but XBMC also depends on ffmpeg and, currently, uses an > embedded copy of it. Yeah, so does mythtv. The single biggest packaging challenge there would be to use a packaged ffmpeg, since mythtv counts on the ability to use its own embedded version. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
