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Bug 752172 - Consider switching back to FFmpeg vs. Libav
Consider switching back to FFmpeg vs. Libav
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 751607
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-libav
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: NONE
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-07-09 14:08 UTC by Doug McMahon
Modified: 2015-07-09 14:17 UTC
See Also:
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Description Doug McMahon 2015-07-09 14:08:24 UTC 
The recent trend for many distros is to go back to FFmpeg, most recent Debian/Ubuntu. gstreamer should consider likewise
Debian reasoning here - https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg
announcement - https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/07/msg00001.html
Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2015-07-09 14:17:35 UTC 
Way ahead of ya ;)

(Also, that 'reasoning' is the ffmpeg point of view, looks like the libav folks never even bothered to put up a libav-provider/libav page.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 751607 ***