Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Quick RFC: USE=libav vs FFMPEG_IMPL=libav|ffmpeg

2015-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/02/2015 20:02, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-02-03, o godz. 18:50:43 Jason A. Donenfeld zx...@gentoo.org napisał(a): If you want ffmpeg-ish features, at all, USE=ffmpeg. If you'd like to use the libav implementation, USE=libav. If you'd prefer to use the original ffmpeg

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 10:12:12 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): So can someone please remind me what are the technical reasons why we prefer libav over ffmpeg? We have a developer inside I think it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 17:24:03 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 4 February 2015 at 17:21, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 10:12:12 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): With the recent introduction of the libav USE flag, the Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
With the recent introduction of the libav USE flag, the Gentoo default for ffmpeg vs libav is more pronounced than it was before (with libav being listed first in || ( ) dependencies). In the replies to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=7694982 several users have expressed their preference

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Ben de Groot
On 4 February 2015 at 17:21, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 10:12:12 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): With the recent introduction of the libav USE flag, the Gentoo default for ffmpeg vs libav is more pronounced than it was before (with libav being

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: From what I heard, that upstream likes to change its opinion frequently, pretty much based on which upstream he is pissed at the moment. But it's just rumors. This is most certainly untrue. Please stop disseminating FUD

[gentoo-dev] Re: toolchain.eclass: need to revert fixincludes commit

2015-02-04 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On 02/03/2015 08:55 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 02/02/15 19:06, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Il 02/02/2015 23:30, Pacho Ramos ha scritto: El sáb, 31-01-2015 a las 16:48 -0500, Anthony G. Basile escribió: Hi everyone, We need to revert the following change to toolchain.eclass:

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 10:12:12 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): With the recent introduction of the libav USE flag, the Gentoo default for ffmpeg vs libav is more pronounced than it was before (with libav being listed first in || ( ) dependencies). In the replies to

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 04-02-2015 a las 17:24 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió: [...] From an upstream that I care about: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav Based on that I would say we should switch back the default to ffmpeg. Thanks a lot for the link

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: From an upstream that I care about: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav Based on that I would say we should switch back the default to ffmpeg. I can vouch for the content of that link and the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 10:12:12 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: With the recent introduction of the libav USE flag, the Gentoo default for ffmpeg vs libav is more pronounced than it was before (with libav being listed first in || ( ) dependencies). In the replies to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Quick RFC: USE=libav vs FFMPEG_IMPL=libav|ffmpeg

2015-02-04 Thread Martin Vaeth
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Also, portage-2.2.16 will have support for special USE_EXPAND syntax in package.use I knew from reading portage-dev ml Actually, I am hoping that the introduction of the feature be taken as an opportunity to document USE_EXPAND better as a whole on some

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 09:49:02 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org napisał(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/02/15 09:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 14:41:06 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:30:56

Re: [gentoo-dev] arm64

2015-02-04 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:36:06 -0600 Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:43:49 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: I got a bug report for arm64 against the test suite of uriparser. If I could get a temporary arm64 shell somewhere, that could help me

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 18:01:57 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 4 February 2015 at 17:55, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 17:24:03 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org napisał(a): From an upstream that I care about:

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:57:55 +0100 Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/02/15 11:40, Michał Górny wrote: It's easiest to look at the trackers: - ffmpeg-2 [1] -- 26/26 fixed, - ffmpeg-2.4 [2] -- 3/3 fixed (but unsure if there won't be more), - libav-9 [3] -- 55/55 fixed, -

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
I'd like to insert, early on in this thread, that we must leave personal biases and associations *out* of this discussion, and instead focus on technical merits and analyses only. Thus, I would *strongly encourage* that authors of libav and ffmpeg will *refrain from joining this discussion* in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: toolchain.eclass: need to revert fixincludes commit

2015-02-04 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/04/15 03:06, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: On 02/03/2015 08:55 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 02/02/15 19:06, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Il 02/02/2015 23:30, Pacho Ramos ha scritto: El sáb, 31-01-2015 a las 16:48 -0500, Anthony G. Basile escribió: Hi everyone, We need to revert the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Whilst the default *is* still in place (and particularly after the recent news article detailing that users should be using libav), could we please keep commits like the following until *after* we've made an agreed upon decision please?

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Luca Barbato
On 04/02/15 11:40, Michał Górny wrote: It's easiest to look at the trackers: - ffmpeg-2 [1] -- 26/26 fixed, - ffmpeg-2.4 [2] -- 3/3 fixed (but unsure if there won't be more), - libav-9 [3] -- 55/55 fixed, - libav-10 [4] -- 11/25 fixed. No offense here but in my experience, ffmpeg support in

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał: On Wed, 04 Feb 2015, Matthias Maier wrote: So can someone please remind me what are the technical reasons why we prefer libav over ffmpeg? *ugh* Please no. What about leaving the default (if there ever was such a default) as it is and avoid the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:30:56 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: It wasn't only weak but quite inconsistent too. Some packages had their own || deps, with different order. this was to reflect upstreams preferences

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Luca Barbato
On 04/02/15 14:25, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: By now it should be clear to most people that everything goes smoother, works better for the end user, and causes less breakage when *ffmpeg is the default, not libav*. Works better is a matter of perception, if I (and the few that help me not

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 11:04:57 Jason A. Donenfeld zx...@gentoo.org napisał(a): I'd like to insert, early on in this thread, that we must leave personal biases and associations *out* of this discussion, and instead focus

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ulrich Mueller schrieb: In the replies to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=7694982 several users have expressed their preference for ffmpeg. To help finding out what users actually think, I added a poll to the forum to ask them about their preference.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: This to me is still the ideal solution (not the || deps due to the issues they have, but the soft default) -- why is it that we need to actually choose or force a default implementation in the profiles anyhow?? I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread George Shapovalov
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 09:49:02 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: In other words, we didn't actually have a default, we just had a means that portage would choose one of them if the end-user haddn't chosen already. This to me is still the ideal solution (not the || deps due to the issues they

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/02/15 09:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 14:41:06 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:30:56 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: It wasn't only weak but quite inconsistent

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Ben de Groot
On 4 February 2015 at 17:55, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 17:24:03 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org napisał(a): From an upstream that I care about: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav Based on that I would say we should switch back the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 11:04:57 Jason A. Donenfeld zx...@gentoo.org napisał(a): I'd like to insert, early on in this thread, that we must leave personal biases and associations *out* of this discussion, and instead focus on technical merits and analyses only. Thus, I would *strongly

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 04-02-2015 a las 11:40 +0100, Michał Górny escribió: [...] It's easiest to look at the trackers: - ffmpeg-2 [1] -- 26/26 fixed, - ffmpeg-2.4 [2] -- 3/3 fixed (but unsure if there won't be more), - libav-9 [3] -- 55/55 fixed, - libav-10 [4] -- 11/25 fixed. No offense here but in

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 14:41:06 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:30:56 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: It wasn't only weak but quite inconsistent too. Some packages had their own || deps, with different order. this was to reflect

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 10:26:06 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 10:12:12 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: With the recent introduction of the libav USE flag, the Gentoo default for ffmpeg vs libav is more pronounced than it was before (with

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Matthias Maier
So can someone please remind me what are the technical reasons why we prefer libav over ffmpeg? *ugh* Please no. What about leaving the default (if there ever was such a default) as it is and avoid the otherwise imminent trainwreck? Best, Matthias signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Wed, 04 Feb 2015, Matthias Maier wrote: So can someone please remind me what are the technical reasons why we prefer libav over ffmpeg? *ugh* Please no. What about leaving the default (if there ever was such a default) as it is and avoid the otherwise imminent trainwreck? As I said,

Re: [gentoo-dev] arm64

2015-02-04 Thread Steven Lembark
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:44:20 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: So I don't need shell access any more, at least not in this context. If you are interested in fixing things feel free to ping me and we can get you ssh access (assuming that an Opteron 2376 is sufficient) prior to

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
This to me is still the ideal solution (not the || deps due to the issues they have, but the soft default) -- why is it that we need to actually choose or force a default implementation in the profiles anyhow?? Because blockers resulted whenever two different packages made portage pick two

Re: [gentoo-dev] arm64

2015-02-04 Thread Steven Lembark
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:43:49 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: I got a bug report for arm64 against the test suite of uriparser. If I could get a temporary arm64 shell somewhere, that could help me understand the issue. I can give you an accout here; system is Opteron 2000