Bug#729203: Bring back ffmpeg

[Igor Levicki <igor@levicki.net>]

As a user and as a developer I vote for bringing ffmpeg back, at least 
as an option.

I also want to voice my concern about this kind of turf wars and the 
future of open-source.

It is OK that one of Debian/Ubuntu upstream developers disagreed with 
Michael Niedermayer
and made a fork, although the way it has been done was really ugly.

It is OK to decide to include the fork in Debian/Ubuntu.

What is not OK is to remove a choice from the end user and to insinuate 
with your message
about deprecation how ffmpeg is inferior to your own fork.

Why don't you let users decide?

Or you perhaps forgot who made you popular?

It is sad that you talk about Committee and waste time politicking and 
arguing here when
your stable network based install can't even detect Intel network 
adapters due to your
developers not updating 3 year old e1000e driver in installer ISO.

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Regards,
Igor Levicki

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