linuxaudio.org

On Saturday 12 January 2013 10:19:59 Rustom Mody wrote:

quoted text
> Ive seen some postings here recently recommending ffmpeg, so I thought I'd

> ask this (somewhat political) question:

> All that I know is that as an ordinary mostly-ignoramus user, Ive used

> ffmpeg on and off and then one day my debian updates told me ffmpeg is

> obsolete use libav.

> Did that and have found that some things that used to work with ffmpeg

> stopped with libav (dont exactly remember the details).

> Currently it appears that for using ffmpeg one needs to compile from source.

>

> Since people are recommending use of ffmpeg am I to understand that the

> headache is worth it?

>

> http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html seems to say that

> ffmpeg is integrating libav patches and not vice versa

>

> [Sorry for asking a political question]

Thanks for exposing this issue. I think that it is important, because it

illustrates a negative and recurrent pattern from some Linux distros. Another

example:
CDRecord or Wodim?

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
Regards,

Pedro
_______________________________________________

Linux-audio-user mailing list

Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org

http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user