On Sunday, July 1, 2012 10:45:46 PM UTC+1, Nathan wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Jonathan Hartley <[email protected]> 
> wrote: 
> > I was interested to read this background on ffmpeg & libav. 
> > 
> >  http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html 
> > 
> > I don't know whether this is an unbiased or authoritative account, but 
> > it was still interesting to me just to find out about the split & its 
> > contentiousness. 
> > 
> > Cheers, 
> > 
> >   Jonathan 
>
> If you read that, read the opposing point of view that he links to as 
> well: 
>
> http://codecs.multimedia.cx/?p=370 
>
> You can basically sum everything up as "one big mess" in my opinion. 
> There's talented coders on both sides -- too bad they didn't find a 
> way to keep the project together.  Strong coding skills seem to often 
> have an inverse relationship with strong social skills, unfortunately. 
>
> For AVbin 9 and 10 we're going to try Libav.  Whether or not we decide 
> to support FFmpeg as well or instead in the future just depends on how 
> things work out.  It makes my life harder, unfortunately, since 
> there's not a clear leading project that I can commit to tracking 
> long-term.  Because of the limited scope of AVbin (just 
> decoding/demuxing using a few API calls) we *might* be able to 
> maintain support for both. 
>
> ~ Nathan 
>

Thanks for the further reading Nathan. 

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