Select provider of libav* libraries

Bálint Réczey balint at balintreczey.hu
Wed May 13 10:22:03 UTC 2015


Hi Reinhard,

2015-05-09 15:10 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at debian.org>:
> On 2015-05-09 11:19, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Admittedly seems there is more activity on FFmpeg's than libav's side.
>> It does not necessarily reflect into higher quality though - plus,
>> libav is not dead at all as they're still releasing new versions and
>> providing support and fixes for a number of stable branches.
>> I'm personally getting very well with libav and apparently it is
>> enough to meet all my needs too. Nevertheless others are encountering
>> issues that they claim are solved with FFmpeg, so that might be a
>> solution which could make many users happy.
>>
>> I'm not going to vote on this now as I really need to hear an opinion
>> from the libav's current maintainer, Reinhard Tartler.
>> I genuinely believe that we all need to hear an opinion from him
>> before taking any further action.
>
>
> Thanks for copying me on this email. It seems that I was automatically
> unsubscribed from that email on May 1 due to excessive bounces, and failed
> to notice that. I've resubscribed myself now.
>
> I've also started to read the mails that have been exchanged so far.
> The main issue is that I'm currently travelling and need more time to
> articulate my opinion on the matter[1] than I have right now.
> Please give me a couple of days to catch up.
It is great that we could reach you. Please share your opinion, the
discussion is stalled for a few days because we would like to hear
you.
When could we expect you be able to share your view?

Thanks,
Balint

>
> Best,
> Reinhard
>
>
> [1] it is much less black and white than Andreas suggests -
>     please don't put words in my mouth



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