[arch-general] ffmpeg and libav

[Andrea Crotti]

On 02/11/2012 07:30 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 02/11/2012 09:26 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>> I am not part of the libav team, but I know many developers and I
>> followed the story
>> of the fork.
>> I then also noticed that my beloved arch is still using ffmpeg and libav
>> is not even in
>> the official repository (but only in AUR).
>>
>> Is there a reason for that?
>>
> because nothing in our repositories requires libav

Everything requiring ffmpeg might require libav instead, which is quite 
a lot of stuff.

>
>>   There are quite a few good reasons to switch over and many already did:
>>    - debian unstable
>> (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-December/023070.html)
>>
> the inclusion in debian is questionable and I don't want to open the
> pandora box and start a long and boring discussion about this.
>
> see my point 1).

Which was?

I've seen a couple of threads on the forum and it's quite shocking how 
much FUD and
wrong information there is in there, doesn't it make you think the fact 
that also gstreamer
and VLC are using libav?