Il giorno mar, 04/06/2013 alle 09.07 +0100, Jamie Nguyen ha scritto: > On 04/06/13 08:26, Dario Lesca wrote: > > About ffmpeg, a Debian's user say: > > > >> "This package contains the deprecated ffmpeg program. This package > >> also serves as a transitional package to libav-tools. Users are > >> advised to use avconv from the libav-tools package instead of ffmpeg. > >> > >> Libav is a complete, cross-platform solution to decode, encode, > >> record, convert and stream audio and video." > > ffmpeg is not deprecated at all and is still being actively developed. > In fact, the upstream MPlayer tarball still contains ffmpeg, not libav. > > Libav is a fork of ffmpeg that happened early 2011 as some were unhappy > with the project leader (Michael Niedermayer). Libav tried to take the > ffmpeg trademark/website for themselves, but the owner of the trademark > (Fabrice Bellard, original author of ffmpeg) intervened. The two > projects are now going their separate ways. > > One of the members of the libav fork happens to be the maintainer of > ffmpeg on Debian/Ubuntu, so he "deprecated" ffmpeg and spread what some > might call misleading information about ffmpeg. Neither ffmpeg or libav > seem significantly better or worse than the other, either in features or > stability. Certainly neither of them can be considered deprecated > projects. I was under the impression that they stopped showing the > deprecation message, but it appears I may be wrong. > > This gives a detailed look at what happened. The author claims > objectivity, but I'd take the facts and weigh things for yourself: > http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html > > > > I'm looking for a Fedora's package for libav-tools (or avcomv) > > ffmpeg can be found in the RPMFusion repository: http://rpmfusion.org/ > I don't think libav-tools is in any of our official repositories, though > I believe the gstreamer1-libav package uses libav instead of ffmpeg. > Most of our other media-related software is built with ffmpeg, not libav. > > > Kind regards, > > -- > Jamie Nguyen > Thanks Jamie for your detailed explanation as well. I will continue to use ffmpeg from RPMfusion Many Thanks -- Dario Lesca - sip:dario@xxxxxxxxxx (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora18+Gnome3) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
