From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D29B731EC for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2016 07:17:04 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.22,325,1449561600"; d="scan'208";a="865485903" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.161]) ([10.237.68.161]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2016 07:16:59 -0800 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org From: Alexander Kanavin Message-ID: <56A0F5D4.5090701@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:14:28 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav) X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:17:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, let's replace libav with ffmpeg in oe-core. The reasons are: - all of the major distributions are using ffmpeg now (the last holdout was Debian, and they switched to ffmpeg in summer 2015 after a long discussion and deliberation [1][2]) - ffmpeg is much more responsive to security issues - ffmpeg does regular releases, while libav hasn't had one since spring 2015 - other reasons listed in [2] [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/ [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg Objections, thoughts? Alex