Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

Thanks for clearing that up. So it appears that getting the support of upstream to work on packages would be a great amount causing user base to be "stuck". I wasn't aware that there was so many packages and our manpower is too low to impact upstream. I believe debian went back to ffmpeg a year

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

11.9 is the latest patch release on the 11.x branch, 12.0 is also in portage but not marked stable. Neither provides the same versions of the component libraries as ffmpeg even as old as ffmpeg 3.0.x (bearing in mind ffmpeg is already u pto 3.3 branch, 3.0.x is already quite old). There may be

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

Wasn't libav 11.9 released last month? On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Ben Roberts wrote: > Let's bear in mind the problem is not just that there are packages that > don't have direct support for libav. The problem is also partly that there > is not a libav release

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

Let's bear in mind the problem is not just that there are packages that don't have direct support for libav. The problem is also partly that there is not a libav release that provides all the same component library versions that are available in ffmpeg; libav is definitively behind ffmpeg at the

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

Can we get a list of every application in portage that DOES NOT support libav and requires ffmpeg? I would volunteer to attempt filing bugs for each application requesting libav support. On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM KJS wrote: > I have to agree with Ettore > > On Mon, May

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

I have to agree with Ettore On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Sławomir Nizio wrote: > > We are one of the few distributions (actually i'm not aware of others) > > that support libav out of the box, and i'm proud of it. What i would > > propose instead is trying to push

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

> We are one of the few distributions (actually i'm not aware of others) > that support libav out of the box, and i'm proud of it. What i would > propose instead is trying to push upstream projects that misses libav > support and/or helping libav providing support to them. Volunteers? :) One of