I tried not to get into this discussion, mostly because it will degenerate to a mud sliding contest.<\/p>\n
Alexis<\/a> did not take well the fact that\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161<\/a> changed the default provider for libavcodec and related libraries.<\/p>\n Before we start, one point:<\/p>\n I am as biased as Alexis, as we are both involved on the projects themselves. The same goes for Diego, but does not apply to Tom\u00e1\u0161, he is just a downstream by transition (libreoffice uses gstreamer that uses *only* Libav).<\/p>\n Now the question at hand: which should be the default? FFmpeg<\/a> or Libav<\/a>?<\/p>\n How to decide?<\/p>\n – Libav has a strict review policy every patch goes through a review and has to be polished enough before landing the tree.<\/p>\n – FFmpeg merges daily what had been done in Libav and has a more lax approach on what goes in the tree and how.<\/p>\n – Libav has fate<\/a> running on most architectures, many of those are running Gentoo, usually real hardware.<\/p>\n – FFmpeg has an old fate<\/a> with less architectures, many qemu emulations.<\/p>\n – Libav defines the API<\/p>\n – FFmpeg follows adding bits here and there to “diversify”<\/p>\n – Libav has a major release per season, minor releases when needed<\/p>\n – FFmpeg releases a lot touting a lot of *Security*Fixes* (usually old code from the ancient times eventually fixed)<\/p>\n – Libav does care about crashes and fixes them, but does not claim every crash is a Security issue.<\/p>\n – FFmpeg goes by leaps to add MORE features, no matter what (including picking wip branches from my personal github and merging them before they are ready…)<\/p>\n – Libav is more careful, thus having less fringe features and focusing more polishing before landing new stuff.<\/p>\n So if you are a downstream you can pick what you want, but if you want something working everywhere you should target Libav.<\/p>\n If you are missing a feature from Libav that is in FFmpeg, feel free to point me to it and I’ll try my best to get it to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tried not to get into this discussion, mostly because it will degenerate to a mud sliding contest. Alexis did not take well the fact that\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161 changed the default provider for libavcodec and related libraries. Before we start, one point: I am as biased as Alexis, as we are both involved on the projects themselves. … Continue reading The case of defaults (Libav vs FFmpeg)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGWH-2B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}