Bug#741935: Is the avbin package still being maintained?

["Juan J. Martínez" <jjm@usebox.net>]

Hi,

I'm Juan J. Martinez, one of the maintainers of pyglet upstream.

I found this bug report and I'd like to add some information in case it
helps.

AVBin is technically optional for Pyglet, but in practice is a
requirement as pyglet can only handle a very limited set of basic media
formats and AVBin is required for anything else.

Re: https://github.com/AVbin/AVbin/issues/41#issuecomment-10700404

AFAIK there are some issues with video support that are a blocker to get
AVBin 11 out; but audio support is stable.

Re: AVBin forking libav:

"AVbin is designed to be used with a particular version of Libav. This
version of Libav is included as a git submodule of the AVbin project
under the libav directory. Note that this version of Libav may contain
AVbin-specific patches, though we try to get all patches accepted upstream."

When AVBin started libav was in continuous development and it was
changing the API too often making difficult to track. Looks like the
situation has changed and perhaps AVBin maintainer would be keen to
start tracking one release branch of libav.

I've contacted current AVBin maintainer upstream trying to get help from
him regarding this issue.

Kind regards,

Juan