[preface: the following is just for the sake of discussion - I am satisfied by how we reached an agreement] Steve Langasek ha scritto: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:02:55PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: >> ffmpeg is developed inside MPlayer ; for that reason, they (correctly) >> feel free to improve it in any way they like. This is clearly stated in >> the web pages of ffmpeg: no stable api, sorry. > > I don't see anything correct about this, frankly. I think these comprise > abysmal maintenance practices on the part of upstream, and if it were my > decision *personally*, I would likely judge mplayer/ffmpeg too immature to > be included in a stable release until they did settle on a stable API. ok, suppose you are right: we delete ffmpeg from Debian stable, since it is not really a library yet we delete mplayer from Debian stable, since it immaturely links with ffmpeg then - your judgement should be applied to all other programs that ship (*) an internal copy of ffmpeg, and/or - Moritz request of not having multiple copies should apply to them so we also delete ffmpeg from inside: libxine1 , used in totem-xine xine-ui gxine [other 20 programs] gstreamer-ffmpeg , used in totem-gstreamer openoffice.org libgnash0 [flash implementation] gnomebaker geekast-binary bmpx AFAIK, the only remaining player in Debian that is capable of decoding MPEG4 streams is VLC; feel free to correct me if I am wrong... (*) also, mplayer is not the only programs who ships an internal copy of ffmpeg, and messes with it; as Loic reports, the upstream of gst-ffmpeg do modify their internal copy of ffmpeg, and this makes it difficult to DynLEF it as well a.
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