On 8 February 2015 at 03:20, Jason A. Donenfeld <zx...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The votes keep pouring in. Ffmpeg is the preference of Gentoo users, as well > as the majority of Gentoo developers, and by a very relevant upstream > author.
I don't think a forum poll, or a poll of users for that matter is great way to build a distribution, in fact it may be very worst way I can think of. I wouldn't like to comment of the preferences of my fellow developers, but I might suggest to put this to bed with a vote. With regards to packages both Gstreamer and Handbrake upstreams prefer libav, though again I don't think that is great way to pick. So long as libav is effectively dictating the API then by defaulting to ffmpeg we are just delaying the inevitable breakage htting the tree. I know there are people who think we shouldn't break unstable, but I personally prefer a faster moving model with an amount of breakage. -- Ian Whyman www.gentoo.org
