Select provider of libav* libraries

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2014-08-27 9:52 GMT+02:00 Matteo F. Vescovi <mfvescovi at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Team!
> >
> > On 2014-08-27 at 00:36 (CEST), Benjamin Drung wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> So I am asking you: Should we ship libav or FFmpeg? Can we reach a
> >> consensus on this topic?
> >
> > Libav for me, of course.
> > I've spent too much time on getting it working fine with Blender
> > that it'd be crazy to change it now. ;-)
> 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. :-)

Wow! So time, energy, and effort are *just* sunken¹ costs? :(

¹ Whatever sunken means.

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