On Saturday 12 January 2013 10:19:59 Rustom Mody wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
