The reality is not like you describe it. The debian package maintainer of ffmpeg was/is one of the libav guys and decided to replace ffmpeg with libav. Judging

The reality is not like you describe it. The debian package maintainer of ffmpeg was/is one of the libav guys and decided to replace ffmpeg with libav. Judging by several frustrated comments in this thread, it has obviously been a hurtful decision. There are a few writeups of the situation on the web, here's one: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html