[Hamara-devel] Fwd: libav and FFmpeg: switch over

[Vikas Tara]

On 08/07/15 14:54, shirish wrote:
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> Subject: libav and FFmpeg: switch over
> Resent-Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2015 08:40:10 +0000 (UTC)
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> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 09:39:51 +0100
> From: Alessio Treglia <alessio at debian.org>
> To: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org
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> Hello,
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> After a careful review of all the pros and cons we, the Debian
> Multimedia Maintainers team, have finally decided to switch from Libav
> to FFmpeg as provider for the libav* multimedia libraries. We'll try
> our best to make this happen in time for stretch.
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> The main arguments for using FFmpeg are summarized on the wiki [1],
> while the full discussion can be found on the
> pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list, starting at [2].
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> Finally we want to thank very much Reinhard Tartler for the tremendous
> efforts he put in place while serving as both upstream developer and
> Debian's primary maintainer for Libav in the past 4 years. We all owe
> him a great debt of gratitude for that.
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> Cheers!
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>    Alessio Treglia
>         on behalf of the Debian Multimedia Maintainers
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> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg
> [2] http://bit.ly/1LW0sJ4
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> - -- Alessio Treglia          | www.alessiotreglia.com
> Debian Developer         |     alessio at debian.org
> Ubuntu Core Developer    |  quadrispro at ubuntu.com
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That's a really good decision. I was really planning to drop libav from 
hamara and replace it with ffmpeg anyway.

Depending on debian's timeline, we may not have to do much.

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