> The fact that https://gpo.zugaina.org/media-video/obs-studio has a hard > dep on ffmpeg could be because the Gentoo maintainer isn't aware of the > virtual package.
I read it really does not compile with libav. > I'm not technically up to date, but if libav is indeed > breaking away with ffmpeg compatibility or visa versa we should decide > what to use. And there is not only OBS Studio. Here is a list (it may be a little outdated): (what depends on media-video/ffmpeg and not media-video/libav of the virtual; USE flags ignored, excluding system-ffmpeg) app-cdr/backlite dev-python/audioread dev-qt/qtwebengine (with USE=system-ffmpeg) dev-util/electron (as above) games-engines/openmw media-gfx/gmic media-libs/gegl media-libs/openimageio media-sound/beets media-sound/cmus media-sound/mixxx media-tv/kodi media-video/dcpomatic media-video/ffcast media-video/mplayer media-video/peek media-video/ttcut net-im/qtox net-misc/youtube-viewer net-p2p/tribler net-voip/homer www-client/chromium (with USE=system-ffmpeg) > > Either way I know we have good contacts with upstream libav and we could > get answers there. (Ettore could you investigate?) OK, I'll wait on what Ettore says about this before going any further. > Having said this. We are an opensource project and if there are issues > with upstream software we at least investigate and inform upstream about > this. There is a problem, but I understand why package maintainers don't want to patch the hell out themselves.
