Select provider of libav* libraries

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Dmitry Smirnov (2015-05-19 14:40:51)
> On Mon, 18 May 2015 16:05:11 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> How would they not be relevant? They recommend users to use ffmpeg 
>>> and list examples of problems they may encounter if they decide to 
>>> use mpv with libav (problems that are regularly reported as mpv 
>>> bugs).
>>
>> Because a) it is not a comparison (as Dmitry introduced it) but a 
>> non-exhaustive list now shrunk to a single concrete item (subtitle 
>> coverage) that you find wrong to focus on and instead bring a 
>> different example of your own, and because b) it is not an assesment 
>> of *our* problem but a different problem that can be solved by 
>> running a script that recompiles against uptodate FFmpeg statically 
>> linked against mpv.
>
> Apologies for poor choice of words. Not much of a "comparison" (call 
> it as you like) this "ffmpeg vs. libav" page contained some insights 
> into pros and cons. Of course information there was incomplete and 
> that's probably why it was taken down -- it is not mpv developers' job 
> to maintain "ffmpeg vs. libav" wiki which opens them for criticism 
> about inaccurate/incomplete/biased comparison.
> I imagine they've made up their minds and that page was not needed any 
> more. Yet it had some useful information (that's why I mentioned it).

No need for apology: I appreciate your sharing that page here, and agree 
that it provides insight potentially valuable to this discussion - no 
matter if still relevant for those who wrote the text, and no matter if 
it is/was a comparison or a list or a single point.

Thanks!

For the record, I do not criticise the authors of that text of it being 
inaccurate nor incomplete nor biased.  On the contrary I appreciate 
their sharing publicly their notes for others to reuse :-)

 - Jonas

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