Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:


> I don't have an opinion about ffmpeg vs libav, apart from how hard the
>> soname transitions are, especially in ubuntu where we somehow ended up
>> with ex-multimedia packages around that either never were in debian,
>> or have been long removed from testing and/or unstable.
>>
>
> There are only 6 additional reverse-build-dependencies of src:libav in
> utopic. Two build against lib*-ffmpeg-dev without further changes, one
> needs a simple patch to use pkg-config, one needs a patch to adapt to newer
> API (also needed for Libav 10), one is BD-uninstallable and one fails for
> unrelated reasons, but its build-dependencies on libav*-dev seem to be
> unnecessary anyway.
>
> Per package list:
>
> alsa-plugins-extra: OK
> bombono-dvd: PATCH CodecID
> dvdstyler: Unmet build dependencies: libwxsvg-dev (>= 2:1.0.9)
> gstreamer-vaapi: error: unsupported GStreamer API version 1.4
> kffmpegthumbnailer: OK
> libdlna: PATCH pkg-config
>

In addition to this, I would like to note there is a lot of closed-source
software which uses ffmpeg instead of libav.

Not saying it doesn't exist but I don't know a single piece of
closed-source software which has moved from ffmpeg to libav.

I know, I know "non DFSG-free software, we don't care". Well, I do. E. g.
I'm having trouble with Qt right now because I'm using the commercial SDK
which indirectly uses ffmpeg to provide some codecs on Linux.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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