On 05/10/14 9:47 PM, compn wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 22:58:34 +0200 > Alexander Strasser <eclip...@gmx.net> wrote: >> This is all RFC as marked in the subject. Please give me some >> feed back! > > could someone please add a note about the deprecated message. > > something like: > > users on debian and ubuntu may have seen this message when using ffmpeg > "*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED *** > This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in > a future release. Please use avconv instead." > > this message was in the libav.org version of the ffmpeg program. > this message has confused many users and caused us a lot of user > support issues. if you see this message it means you are using > libav.org's ffmpeg and not our ffmpeg. please use "apt-get install > ffmpeg" to use the correct ffmpeg program. >
Wasn't this fixed by now, anyway? Afaik it was only on libav 0.8 (doubt Debian Sid ships that at this point) and they recently posted a patch to remove it in a future point release from that branch. No idea what became of it, though. > > > > i think it would help. although i can already see it causing flames. > -compn _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel