2017-10-26 17:56 GMT+02:00 Rob Hallam <[email protected]>:
> On 26 October 2017 at 16:47, juan carlos rebate <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> it is strange everything that is free, ends
>
> If it works, you can keep your current version.
>
>> and what is commercial as in the case of wowza is still alive,
>
> If a company makes profit keeping something alive, they may choose to
> do so. Plenty of commercial products disappear.
>
>> I still do not understand the reason for the death of ffserver,
>
> From the news link (http://ffmpeg.org/index.html#ffserv) in the wiki you 
> posted:
>
>>> ffserver has been a problematic program to maintain due to its use of 
>>> internal APIs, which complicated the recent cleanups to the libavformat 
>>> library, and block further cleanups and improvements which are desired by 
>>> API users and will be easier to maintain. Furthermore the program has been 
>>> hard for users to deploy and run due to reliability issues, lack of 
>>> knowledgable people to help and confusing configuration file syntax.
>
>> I use ffserver to transmit my animations, my content, because I do not
>> use youtube? because I do not control it,
>
> So keep doing so! Or, as the last sentence in the news says:
>
>>> Current users and members of the community are invited to write a 
>>> replacement program to fill the same niche that  fserver did using the new 
>>> APIs and to contact us so we may point users to test and contribute to its 
>>> development.
>
> From an end-user point of view it is disappointing that new version
> will not be produced, but there are options.
>
> Rob
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in my opinion there are no options, but I am happy to know that I can
create a server that communicates with the new api, I will document
myself and maybe it will take some time but if I succeed I will
distribute it here
if I have success can I still use the name ffserver?
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