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

[shirish]

at bottom :-

On 07/08/2015 08:11 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> 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)
>> Resent-From: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org
>> 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,
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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].
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>    Alessio Treglia
>>         on behalf of the Debian Multimedia Maintainers
>>
>>
>> [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.
>

This is actually available today in unstable and testing both. AFAIK 
don't think they will be doing backports for jessie though :(

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org