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what security issues were prevented by libav's wholesale removal of working code? why did libav implement new ffmpeg features in gratuitously incompatible ways?

• kuschku 7y ago
  > what security issues were prevented by libav's wholesale removal of working code? ffmpeg has a lot of areas where the cold is old, barely maintained, and has many issues. Have you tried running ffmpeg through a static analysis tool? the resulting warning list will be so large, it wouldn’t fit on a floppy. libav’s first action was removing such unclean code, which was a good thing, the project started with a good motivation, similar to libreSSL — they also ripped out 90% of working code to clean the codebase up. > why did libav implement new ffmpeg features in gratuitously incompatible ways? > why did libav print the hilariously defamatory "FFMPEG IS DEPRECATED" message? Humans are humans, and tribalism is everywhere. After such a fight, usually the groups both declare the other side wrong, and do everything in their might to make their position more popular. That’s not saying it’s justified, and I won’t make a judgement on these actions, nor am I going to declare which side was good or bad, just that libav started with some good ideals, before this happened.