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.kana...@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 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core