Quoting Adrian Bunk (2014-02-13 22:40:23) > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Adrian Bunk (2014-02-13 20:37:47) >>> Are you as Debian Multimedia Maintainer willing to discuss which >>> option (libav, FFmpeg, some solution of shipping both) will be best >>> for jessie based on the information that is available today? >> >> It will certainly be best for Jessie to have a library included which >> exist and has had reasonable testing as official Debian package. >> >> Someone needs to do the work of packaging FFmpeg and get it into >> Debian testing - then we can sensibly compare them in the context of >> an upcoming stable Debian release. > > Having both sets of libraries in the archive at the same time is what > I called "insane" in the RFP and where I expect additional probems due > to: > - programs compiled with libav using FFmpeg and > - programs ending up using a mix of both libraries, in some cases > even both versions of the same library > > And for a fair comparison in testing, one would e.g. need one package > of VLC compiled against libav and one package of VLC compiled against > FFmpeg at the same time in testing. > > Do you have a good idea how to avoid all the problems of mixing both > libraries while also creating a sufficient usage of the FFmpeg > libraries in a way that both libraries can be in testing at the same > time,
No, unfortunately I see no way around a substantive amount of real work to prove FFmpeg relevant for consideration. > or are you just setting a hurdle intended to be impossible to pass for > FFmpeg? No, I do not "set a hurdle", just point out that I find it reasonable. Nor do I consider it impossible - just hard work. ...just as it has been hard work for those getting LibAV into shape. Actually, I expect it to be *less* work, because the situation is arguably now less of a mess than when the LibAV fork was started. Not that I expect you to agree on that - I just point it out, to emphasize that I do *not* consider it an imposible task like you seem to put in my mouth. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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