libav and ffmpeg

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Wed Jun 22 08:45:01 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:05:36 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am 18.06.2011 10:54, schrieb A Mennucc:
>> accordind to debian/copyright both  source packages above are
>> tracking libav.org ... wouldn't it be better if the latter would be
>> used to track (and maybe package) the ffmpeg.org codebase ?

What makes you think so?

> In this (or at least related) context...
>
> http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html:
>> 0.8 was released on 2011-06-22. It is the latest stable FFmpeg
>> release. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes
>> from ffmpeg-mt and libav.
>
> WTF?!

Neat, no? I'm busy preparing the Libav 0.7 release, then FFmpeg does a
git merge from libav.org and quickly publishes both 0.7 and 0.8.
Cool, uh?

Cheers,
Reinhard


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