On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:32:49PM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2014-02-03 16:22:38, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > But if someone wants, as Lorenzo suggested, an "apt-get install ffmpeg"
> > to magically switch all applications like VLC from using libav to
> > ffmpeg, then one of the requirements for that would clearly be that
> > there would have to be two versions of all binaries and libraries
> > using libav/ffmpeg in the archive - one compiled with libav, and
> > one compiled with ffmpeg.
>
> I reread Lorenzo's email, and it doesn't actually say "switch all
> applications like VLC from libav to ffmpeg".
>
> He just said:
>
> > users should be able to do
> >
> > apt-get install ffmpeg
> >
> > or
> >
> > apr-get install libav
>
> I think some people here are talking about using ffmpeg as a
> commandline-based conversion tool, not necessarily the way you are
> bringing up, as a library that (say) vlc is linking against.
Before what you quote he said in the same email:
Agree with many on at least providing the *option* for users to have
the original ffmpeg instead of libav
There is no libav program, and he is clearly talking about the libraries.
> > That would be technically insane, and politically impossible unless
> > CTTE (or a GR) would override the likely veto from the Debian multimedia
> > maintainers for doing that in any of the packages they maintain.
>
> Then maybe this RFP can focus on providing the ffmpeg binary again and
> not necessarily get into replacing libav altogether, which I think was
> the original intention here, hence my original email. :)
No.
Rogério is listing in the initial email in this RFP many reasons for the
ffmpeg libraries. But he never mentions anything related to the ffmpeg
commandline programs.
Or are you seriously saying chromium would use the ffmpeg
commandline programs?
The ffmpeg/libav commandline programs are relatively rarely used - what
is used heavily on Linux are the libraries.
> Cheers,
>
> A.
cu
Adrian
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