Bug#716735: ffmpeg is many years outdated

[Paul Gevers]

Control: blocked -1 by 706798

On 12-07-13 01:49, Jackson Doak wrote:
> Package: ffmpeg
> Version: 6:0.8.7-1
> 
> The current version of ffmpeg in debian is 6:0.8.7-1 while the current
> official release is 2.0. Updating to this version would also fix
> bug#716734
> The latest version can be found at
> http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_2.0

In Debian we are not following the ffmpeg.org version of the library,
but the libav fork. A very recent package is available in experimental
and we are waiting for the release team to allow the transition [1] to
unstable.

[1] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libav9.html

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