On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 12:19:18 +0000 Ian Whyman <thev00...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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. A poll for which is default does make sense: if 90% of users were to use the non-default, there is no point of having such a default. Whether the forum is a good representing sample is another debate. What we need instead of such endless debate & happy bashing (been there, done that) is people doing the work. That's what will improve the distribution. I thought letting libav be the default would improve that; unfortunately this is not the case today: libav ebuilds are good, tree-wide integration is not. I find it a bit sad and sarcastic that we're close to have ffmpeg-2.2 stable while libav-10 is not even unmasked: One big feature of the two versions is the h265/hevc decoder, and as I understood it, most of the work has been done on the libav side... Alexis.
