On 08/02/15 17:13, Alexis Ballier wrote:
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;
If nobody helps fixing the orphaned and near orphaned applications we distribute nothing good happens and sadly in the past months I had been busy with more rl tasks.
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...
libav-10 and libav-11 are the same api wise, sadly I had to wait for handbrake to provide a new release and I hadn't time to install and check all the near orphaned application that call direct the ffmpeg command.
I had no problems with using libav-11 since it was released but I kept it masked while patching stuff.
Sadly the time I can spend doing opensource stuff can be compressed from time to time and maybe is nicer develop interesting stuff such as useful API and features than write tons of s:CODEC_ID:AV_CODEC_ID: over countless packages.
lu
