Hi Fabian, Dominik, Debian developers On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:43:19AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Dear Dominik, > > Am 23.09.2011 18:03, schrieb Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski: > >Dear All, > >I'm sending this (Bcc) to Debian/Ubuntu package maintainers who are listed > >under "Original Maintainers" on http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ffmpeg > >and who seem to be doing something at least a bit related still. > > You seem to have missed Debian multimedia packages maintainers > <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. Shifting this > mail there as I am not going to discuss this with you in private.
Thank you for moving this to a public mailing list. Dominik has pointed me to this mail, and i think its something i should as main author of ffmpeg/libav, reply to. libav forked off ffmpeg in the begin of this year. Since then libav has fallen behind ffmpeg very significantly. Also due to the unfortunate choice of the name of the fork, i should probably clarify that the ffmpeg libraries libavcodec, libavformat, libavfilter and so on are developed and maintained within the ffmpeg project. Their maintainers, reviewers and authors are still predominantly in the ffmpeg project, in some cases like libavfilter and libpostproc all authors are to 100% on the ffmpeg side of the fork. In terms of features: ffmpeg has 17 additional decoders, 11 encoders, 11 demuxers, 5 muxers, 19 native av filter and 51 non native filters that libav does not have. You only have to diff the libav*/all*.c files between ffmpeg and libav git to see this. There is no single feature in libav that ffmpeg does not have. All improvments and bugfixes from libav are always merged into ffmpeg. But changes from ffmpeg are only sometimes merged into libav, this includes some security relevant changes. In terms of bugs: Both projects in the past used roundup to track bugs. With the fork we were forced to switch to a new server&hosting and with that also choose to use trak as tracker while libav, for reasons unknown to me switched to bugzilla. Due to this, its very easy to compare the bug fixing activity as both projects started with fresh trackers. ffmpeg has 280 fixed bugs, see: https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/query?resolution=fixed libav has 17 fixed bugs see: http://bugzilla.libav.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&resolution=FIXED Given above, and especially the security issues, i would strongly suggest debian to reconsider the decission to package just libav. The ffmpeg team as well as I are of course happy to help with maintaining debian packages if such help is needed or wanted! [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. -- Plutarch
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