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It's a *fork* of FFmpeg that is becoming libav

It's a *fork* of FFmpeg that is becoming libav

Posted Mar 14, 2011 17:28 UTC (Mon) by Frej (subscriber, #4165)
In reply to: It's a *fork* of FFmpeg that is becoming libav by david.a.wheeler
Parent article: FFmpeg fork becomes libav

Given it is ronald butlje and the naming of the new project is prefixed 'lib', it's likely he will achieve what distroes and users need in a shared library. It is kinda crappy that ffmpeg has to be copied verbatim for every project that uses it, because it has no real stable releases whatsoever.


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It's a *fork* of FFmpeg that is becoming libav

Posted Mar 15, 2011 3:15 UTC (Tue) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link]

> It is kinda crappy that ffmpeg has to be copied verbatim for every project that uses it, because it has no real stable releases whatsoever.

FFmpeg (now libav) has had stable releases since March 2009.

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