Select provider of libav* libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Aug 27, 2014 10:43 AM, "Fabian Greffrath" <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 27.08.2014, 09:52 +0200 schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi:
> > Libav for me, of course.
>
> I am for libav for the next stable release. However, I am open for
> anything else after that. To be honest, I recently find the sheer number
> of "my bug instantly vanished once I replaced libav with ffmpeg" reports
> a bit emberrassing.

Did you check how many of those bugs are fixed in a later libav upstream
release? Note that even the current libav release frequency is tough for
Debian, even faster releases won't make integration any easier.

> > I've spent too much time on getting it working fine with Blender
> > that it'd be crazy to change it now. ;-)
>
> Then Bálint must clearly be crazy to do all the porting work the other
> way round for XBMC. ;)

Xbmc works best with its embedded copy of FFmpeg. I predict similar
problems with an outdated system copy of FFmpeg.  The time spent in fixing
that does not seem significantly smaller than fixing bugs in libav.

Best Reinhard
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