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From: "Timothy Gu" <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2014 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#729203: CTTE and reasonable solutions
To: "Jan Larres" <jan@majutsushi.net>
Cc:
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> On Feb 3, 2014 3:39 PM, "Jan Larres" <jan@majutsushi.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/02/14 12:08, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> > > If both packages are ABI-compatible, then ffmpeg can be designed as a
> > > drop-in replacement for libav and users will be free to choose.
> >
> > As far as I understand it the problem is that it is *not* a drop-in
> > replacement as far as the libraries are concerned, every package needs
> > to be recompiled depending on which library should be used. So you would
> > need two different packages for every program that uses the libraries if
> > you wanted to offer both in parallel. And I don't think Adrian (or
> > anyone else) is against ffmpeg as such, it's just that there should be
> > made a decision which one to use in order to avoid these issues.
>
> It's not as bad as you think. FFmpeg has a --enable-libav-incompatible-abi configure option. Didn't test the effectiveness of it though.
>
> Timothy
>
> >
> > Jan
> >
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