proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav)

proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav)

[Alexander Kanavin]

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

Re: [OE-core] proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav)

[Burton, Ross]

[CC'ing oe-devel]

On 21 January 2016 at 15:14, Alexander Kanavin <
alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

Sounds sensible to me.  However we're a week away from M2 deadline so I'm
not sure we'll be able to have a consensus and get patches before that
unless someone is incredibly motivated.

Ross

Re: proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav)

[Burton, Ross]

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[CC'ing oe-devel]

On 21 January 2016 at 15:14, Alexander Kanavin <
alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

Sounds sensible to me.  However we're a week away from M2 deadline so I'm
not sure we'll be able to have a consensus and get patches before that
unless someone is incredibly motivated.

Ross

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Re: [OE-core] proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav)

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:40:10 Burton, Ross wrote:
> [CC'ing oe-devel]
> 
> On 21 January 2016 at 15:14, Alexander Kanavin <
> 
> alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 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?

FWIW I did effectively make this same proposal last July, I think people were broadly in favour:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/107091.html

> Sounds sensible to me.  However we're a week away from M2 deadline so I'm
> not sure we'll be able to have a consensus and get patches before that
> unless someone is incredibly motivated.

Right, yes.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: [oe] proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav)

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:40:10 Burton, Ross wrote:
> [CC'ing oe-devel]
> 
> On 21 January 2016 at 15:14, Alexander Kanavin <
> 
> alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 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?

FWIW I did effectively make this same proposal last July, I think people were broadly in favour:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/107091.html

> Sounds sensible to me.  However we're a week away from M2 deadline so I'm
> not sure we'll be able to have a consensus and get patches before that
> unless someone is incredibly motivated.

Right, yes.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre