From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C5565C60 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDZ9N-0005Ch-K1 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:19:37 +0200 Received: from ip4da2a5ae.direct-adsl.nl ([77.162.165.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:19:37 +0200 Received: from koen by ip4da2a5ae.direct-adsl.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:19:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:19:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2219152.1ss8pFxefq@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip4da2a5ae.direct-adsl.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <2219152.1ss8pFxefq@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: RFC: libav vs. ffmpeg, redux 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: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:19:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Eggleton schreef op 09-07-15 om 12:24: > Hi all, > > A few years ago we made the switch from ffmpeg to libav (a mostly drop-in > compatible fork), with fairly good justification at the time. However, > it looks like Debian has just made the switch back to ffmpeg, citing a > number of reasons - most notably more responsive security issue patching > in recent history. Here's a page with their full reasoning: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg > > Gstreamer (gst-libav, specifically) has also just recently made the > switch back for its internal copy: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751607 > > What do people think? Should we be looking to make the switch back in OE > as well? As much as I like the libav guys, ffmpeg seems to win the popular vote which makes it easier to use. Kodi/xbmc has been named, opencv is another. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFVn9RlMkyGM64RGpERAqwwAJ9SXkQ8WFLRlweCx2CenlK3L1F34ACfZo+R pQzjY9o32AwZTC+OCqpNLXE= =HCXC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----