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

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there.

On Jan 14 2012, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sa, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:13:10 (CET), Rogério Brito wrote:
> > With the youtube-dl maintainer hat on, it will be annoying to have to
> > substitute ffprobe from the script, without an easy way of changing
> > stuff.
> 
> It's just replacing the call from 'ffprobe' to 'avprobe', after
> all. What's so annoying about that?

OK, easy enough.

> > With that said, are there any *recommended* way of using ffmpeg?
> 
> Link against libavcodec and use its API. I don't think there were any
> behavioral guarantees on the binaries made ever.

Well, youtube-dl is a python script and we most probably won't be requiring
bindings to libraries like libavcode (but if there are such bindings, things
may get more interesting).

> Yeah, the output avprobe is certainly easier to parse. Still, if you
> need to do that programatically, I'd recommend using libavcodec
> directly.

See above. Historically, youtube-dl has worked well without anything else
other than the simple python interpreter. It's only recently that we had
requests to extract audio from the videos that the script downloads.

(From your comments, it seems that you are not familiar with youtube-dl). :)


Regards,

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