Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com> wrote:

 

I don't have an opinion about ffmpeg vs libav, apart from how hard the
soname transitions are, especially in ubuntu where we somehow ended up
with ex-multimedia packages around that either never were in debian,
or have been long removed from testing and/or unstable.

There are only 6 additional reverse-build-dependencies of src:libav in utopic. Two build against lib*-ffmpeg-dev without further changes, one needs a simple patch to use pkg-config, one needs a patch to adapt to newer API (also needed for Libav 10), one is BD-uninstallable and one fails for unrelated reasons, but its build-dependencies on libav*-dev seem to be unnecessary anyway.

Per package list:

alsa-plugins-extra: OK
bombono-dvd: PATCH CodecID
dvdstyler: Unmet build dependencies: libwxsvg-dev (>= 2:1.0.9)
gstreamer-vaapi: error: unsupported GStreamer API version 1.4
kffmpegthumbnailer: OK
libdlna: PATCH pkg-config

In addition to this, I would like to note there is a lot of closed-source software which uses ffmpeg instead of libav.

Not saying it doesn't exist but I don't know a single piece of closed-source software which has moved from ffmpeg to libav.

I know, I know "non DFSG-free software, we don't care". Well, I do. E. g. I'm having trouble with Qt right now because I'm using the commercial SDK which indirectly uses ffmpeg to provide some codecs on Linux.

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