On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:37:09 +0100 > > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> > media-video/mplayer2 or media-video/mpv may be used as a more > >> > modern replacement. > >> > >> Don't recommend mplayer2, afaik it's dead. > > > > Also, I'd drop "modern" from there: I don't see much more modernity in > > those forks except maybe younger maintainers :) > > > > Is there an exhaustive list of packages that don't work with one or > the other? I don't think I've noticed anything I couldn't install for > a lack of libav. > Chromaprint will work /differently/ depending on which is used. I added libav support to it, but the fingerprints are not the same as fingerprints generated when using ffmpeg. I've not gotten around to fixing that, so if such a list is being compiled it should be noted on the "don't arbitrarily switch between ffmpeg and libav if this tool is important to you" list.
