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

[Vikas Tara]

On 08/07/15 15:46, shirish wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
> On 07/08/2015 08:11 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 08/07/15 14:54, shirish wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> 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
>>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA512
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> - -- 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 :(
>
I don't see much of a problem in pulling it in from testing - will come 
back to this soon.


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