Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team [RELOADED]

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Alessio,

2014-10-04 13:14 GMT+02:00 Alessio Treglia <alessio at debian.org>:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>> I have checked the wiki page and since the Libav/FFmpeg part feels too
>> biased towards Libav. I will make a separate blog post for XBMC trying
>> to be more balanced.
>
> That part needs update anyway.
> I don't feel like populating our "bits" with allegations on the
> matter, and I guess others like me don't too. No more polemic, we
> have, already, had enough of it.
> Though having said that, and seen what the majority of us has publicly
> expressed recently, I would like to state the rationale behind our
> position against the proposal to replace libav with FFmpeg instead,
> which could be AFAICT fundamentally summaried as "it's too late for
> Jessie".
>
> What do you think about it?
I think the "Libav or FFmpeg in Jessie" choice is artificial and I don't want to
legitimize it by writing about XBMC in a context where it is shown as valid.
IMO both Libav and FFmpeg should be let to enter Jessie and package
maintainers should have the choice of using either of them.
Technically it is now possible and I see arguments against letting FFmpeg into
Jessie weak.

>
>> I already blog about XBMC's state in Debian regularly [1] and it gets
>> aggregated to planet.d.o thus most of our users are probably aware of
>> the revived packages.
>> There is one post in the works about latest updates but I wanted to
>> give a few days to Libav to fix the VDPAU bug [1] hurting many users.
>
> Please add some of such interesting information to the page, I believe
> users will appreciate it.
I think the current state of XBMC does not show the team in a good light
thus I'm not sure if it is a good idea to talk about in Bits.

Cheers,
Balint

>
>> I have added a note about forked-daapd, which I think would be
>> interesting for users.
>
> That's great, thanks.
>
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