<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hi Reinhard,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">My advise would be to focus on Libav, as FFmpeg closely tracks</span><br>
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"upstream", and claims to ensures API/ABI compatibility. Michael<br>
Niedermayer offered repeatedly in the past to merge every development<br>
of Libav into FFmpeg, so that should solve your struggle for good.<br>
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Feel free to drop by in #libav-devel if you find some API that is hard<br>
to use or otherwise difficult. There are many nice guys that are happy<br>
listen to your concerns!<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ok, we'll try that. Thanks for the feedback.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
I took time to make tests with the latest libav this morning, both trunk and release/9 branch.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
The trunk wouldn't compile. Probably some API changes for the next release, that's ok.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
'release/9' is known to compile with GPAC because you and Alessio made us a bug report in January:</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">* <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693159">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693159</a></font><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">* <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/gpac/bugs/265/">https://sourceforge.net/p/gpac/bugs/265/</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
I can confirm GPAC still builds with the Debian unstable libav source:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">* <a href="http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libav/libav_9.8.orig.tar.xz">http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libav/libav_9.8.orig.tar.xz</a>, taken from <a href="http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/libav">http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/libav</a> </div>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The latest 'release/9' doesn't compile. So there seem to be an API breakage in the release/9 branch of libav.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I made the same tests with FFmpeg. Short story: every version builds.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
I'm not judging or comparing the quality of both alternatives. But I mention that libav gives us much more headache in term of API.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Romain</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
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