On 26 October 2017 at 16:47, juan carlos rebate <nerus...@gmail.com> 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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