Select provider of libav* libraries

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:48:23PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 2015-04-29 20:56 GMT+02:00 Alessio Treglia <alessio at debian.org>:
> > 'Evening Ladies and Gentlemen,
> >
> > I am afraid that I have to revive this discussion once again now that
> > Jessie is out as we have plenty of time before starting doing any
> > major work for Stretch: it's really the right time to make a final
> > decision about this subject.
> > The need to get this dichotomy solved may be found in Moritz's last email:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm at inutil.org> wrote:
> >> To properly migrate over a daemon they need to co-exist for a stable
> >> release, while a lib does not. Stretch will only have one of them.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >> Having both for a year along each other will only waste people's time. Now
> >> at the beginning of the release cycle is the time to make a decision,
> >> not by dragging things into a year as of today. Picking one of the two
> >> won't be any simpler in 12 months.
> >
> > It appears clear to me that the security team wouldn't be too happy to
> > support both FFmpeg and libav:
> > Therefore the question still remains:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
> >> So I am asking you: Should we ship libav or FFmpeg? Can we reach a
> >> consensus on this topic?
> According to my observations FFmpeg has better security support,
> accepts enhancement requests faster and is strongly preferred by
> XBMC/Kodi upstream thus I vote for FFmpeg as being the one library we
> ship if we can ship only one.

ffmpeg is also more feature-complete and has, in my experience, less bugs (not
just security ones). It's also recommended by mpv upstream.

While the work done by Reinard (and others) maintaining the libav package is
outstanding and very appreciated, it just seems to make more sense to go with
ffmpeg. So I vote ffmpeg too.

Cheers
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