Select provider of libav* libraries

[Matteo F. Vescovi]

Hi!

On 2014-08-27 at 10:54 (CEST), Bálint Réczey wrote:
> If the definition of being crazy is something close to being
> irrational then making decisions based only on sunken costs can hardly
> be shown to be the opposite. :-)
> 
> OTOH it is very human. :-)

Don't get me wrong: it's clear that if the effort would bring to
something relevant, I'd be the first to say "hey, ok... let's do it
now!" but, at the present time, I don't see any relevant benefit from
the switch, at least on my side (that is limited to a couple of
packages, by the way).

AFAICT, Blender upstream was (and probably is still) a big fan of FFmpeg
library, been that used as default in their code. But they were also
proficient in getting Libav working good and smooth in latest upstream
releases.

So, probably there won't be any evident difference between those two
libraries in packaging. I could do some test buildings against FFmpeg
once it hits the experimental suite (or whatever).

But, as a human being with a real-world-life, I'd prefer spending my
spare time with my son than fixing FTBFS on Blender due to FFmpeg ;-P

Cheers.


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