On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun < andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I don't have an opinion about ffmpeg vs libav, apart from how hard the >> soname transitions are, especially in ubuntu where we somehow ended up >> with ex-multimedia packages around that either never were in debian, >> or have been long removed from testing and/or unstable. >> > > There are only 6 additional reverse-build-dependencies of src:libav in > utopic. Two build against lib*-ffmpeg-dev without further changes, one > needs a simple patch to use pkg-config, one needs a patch to adapt to newer > API (also needed for Libav 10), one is BD-uninstallable and one fails for > unrelated reasons, but its build-dependencies on libav*-dev seem to be > unnecessary anyway. > > Per package list: > > alsa-plugins-extra: OK > bombono-dvd: PATCH CodecID > dvdstyler: Unmet build dependencies: libwxsvg-dev (>= 2:1.0.9) > gstreamer-vaapi: error: unsupported GStreamer API version 1.4 > kffmpegthumbnailer: OK > libdlna: PATCH pkg-config > In addition to this, I would like to note there is a lot of closed-source software which uses ffmpeg instead of libav. Not saying it doesn't exist but I don't know a single piece of closed-source software which has moved from ffmpeg to libav. I know, I know "non DFSG-free software, we don't care". Well, I do. E. g. I'm having trouble with Qt right now because I'm using the commercial SDK which indirectly uses ffmpeg to provide some codecs on Linux. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
