On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:55:51 -0300 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 i havent checked, but i dont think the new message is any more helpful? > (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. yes but 1000s of people still have it installed, what about them? -compn _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
