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If you check this link[0] you can see most of your statement about FFmpeg merging everything and Libav being all about clean code is just completely false. Appa
by jorvi 7y ago
If you check this link[0] you can see most of your statement about FFmpeg merging everything and Libav being all about clean code is just completely false. Apparently lots of hardcoding and weird NIH on the Libav side, and a biased Ubuntu package maintainer to boot.
[0] http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html
- anoncareer0212 7y agoI can vouch for this being impartial and generous at the time, with context – without context it reads a little too much like hectoring
- devy 7y agoThat linked article is from 2012, still relevant? In other words, has some of the things mentioned changed?
- plorkyeran 7y agoLibav mostly died over the last ~2 years, with the developers either returning to ffmpeg or moving on entirely.
- cwyers 7y agoThe big change since then is that Debian switched back to ffmpeg: https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/ https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/