On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Romain Bouqueau <romain.bouqueau....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > >>> My advise would be to focus on Libav, as FFmpeg closely tracks >>> "upstream", and claims to ensures API/ABI compatibility. Michael >>> Niedermayer offered repeatedly in the past to merge every development >>> of Libav into FFmpeg, so that should solve your struggle for good. >>> >>> Feel free to drop by in #libav-devel if you find some API that is hard >>> to use or otherwise difficult. There are many nice guys that are happy >>> listen to your concerns! >> >> >> Ok, we'll try that. Thanks for the feedback. > > > I took time to make tests with the latest libav this morning, both trunk and > release/9 branch. > > The trunk wouldn't compile. Probably some API changes for the next release, > that's ok.
Have the parts already produced deprecation warnings for libav9? > > 'release/9' is known to compile with GPAC because you and Alessio made us a > bug report in January: > * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693159 > * https://sourceforge.net/p/gpac/bugs/265/ > I can confirm GPAC still builds with the Debian unstable libav source: > * > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libav/libav_9.8.orig.tar.xz, > taken from http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/libav > > The latest 'release/9' doesn't compile. So there seem to be an API breakage > in the release/9 branch of libav. That sounds serious, can you please file a bug with full details so that I can reproduce the problem (such as what source to compile, how did you configure libav, etc.)? > > I made the same tests with FFmpeg. Short story: every version builds. > > I'm not judging or comparing the quality of both alternatives. But I mention > that libav gives us much more headache in term of API. I'm sorry to hear that. If you provided more detail, we maybe could do something about it. Take care, -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
