Bug#655683: libav-tools: should provide ff* compatibility symlinks

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 15:12:24 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> I suspect (but have not tested) that libmlt will be affected by the
> strictness of the ffmpeg wrapper: it invokes ffmpeg binary rather than
> linking against libav* libraries, and could very likely be using
> ill-ordered options and possibly also the deprecated -ab option.

Please test it. Note that in libav-tools, /usr/bin/ffmpeg is not a
symlink to avconv, but kept as seperate binary. It is deprecated but
kept deliberately to preserve the old behavior.

Neverthless, tools such as libmlt should be ported to /usr/bin/avconv,
or preferably, against libavcodec/libavformat.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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