A Voice from the Other Side

Posted Aug 7, 2014 12:28 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
In reply to: A Voice from the Other Side by tzafrir
Parent article: Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

I think replacing libav with ffmpeg again is the right choice.

Yes, the fork was necessary, if only to keep the ffmpeg-developers on their toes, but I think ffmpeg is much the better choice now. I run debian, and I've used ffmpeg for maybe two years, since libav just did not have the necessary features.

A Voice from the Other Side

Posted Aug 7, 2014 14:42 UTC (Thu) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link] (1 responses)

What features are you missing? I'm certainly missing nothing, as - arguably - are most people since either library versions are very featureful, but we are open to suggestions if you need/want something backported.

A Voice from the Other Side

Posted Aug 8, 2014 9:48 UTC (Fri) by jmm (subscriber, #34596) [Link]

mpv in Debian fails to decode vobsub subtitles, while is works with ffmpeg.

The libav bug is inactive for 1.5 years now: http://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419