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In almost every use case i have i have, libav has not been able to fulfill my needs and i have had to get rid of libav and install ffmpeg.

_delirium 11y ago
Do you have examples? I currently have libav on my Debian machines and ffmpeg on my Ubuntu machines, but haven't really noticed a difference for my needs. I'm not doing anything too complex, admittedly.
- simcop2387 11y ago
  One that I've encountered is that I had trouble setting up live streaming to youtube with libav. Something weird with the rtmp code, with ffmpeg it worked out of the box. Not sure if it matters that it was on a raspberry pi.
  - icelancer 11y ago
    This was my experience in using ffmpeg with an unrelated rtmp pipe as well. libav caused a ton of very strange and non-reproducible errors that were inconsistent. The switch back to ffmpeg cleaned up 90%+ of the problems.
- roghummal 11y ago
  Most of what I do with ffmpeg is change containers. Example: ffmpeg -i doom4_trailer.mkv -acodec copy -vcodec copy doom4_trailer.mp4 Pretty simple, right? libav: >[mp4 @ 0xa33800] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: -83 >= -83 >av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument (premature exit)
pvaldes 11y ago
Same with me, ffmpeg worked accurately and was extensively documented. Then a day there was no more here. I tried to understand the reasons and adopt avconv despite the ego wars, and those irritant message, and the cumbersome new syntax, and the lack of tutorials in internet... but finally the problem is that avconv just did not worked, and nobody really knew what to do with it. In the end I stopped using both programs. One was aparently unsafe and not installable without breaking things, and the other reinstall itself constantly, acts in a questionable way, and did not solve my problems. I guess that for Debian this was a false step that consumed time and resources but did more damage than good. Libav probably damaged also the image and dominant position of VLC. After several errors and troubles since them, its current luster is not the same as in the first years in my opinion.

_delirium 11y ago

Do you have examples? I currently have libav on my Debian machines and ffmpeg on my Ubuntu machines, but haven't really noticed a difference for my needs. I'm not doing anything too complex, admittedly.

simcop2387 11y ago
One that I've encountered is that I had trouble setting up live streaming to youtube with libav. Something weird with the rtmp code, with ffmpeg it worked out of the box. Not sure if it matters that it was on a raspberry pi.
- icelancer 11y ago
  This was my experience in using ffmpeg with an unrelated rtmp pipe as well. libav caused a ton of very strange and non-reproducible errors that were inconsistent. The switch back to ffmpeg cleaned up 90%+ of the problems.
roghummal 11y ago
Most of what I do with ffmpeg is change containers. Example: ffmpeg -i doom4_trailer.mkv -acodec copy -vcodec copy doom4_trailer.mp4 Pretty simple, right? libav: >[mp4 @ 0xa33800] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: -83 >= -83 >av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument (premature exit)

pvaldes 11y ago

Same with me, ffmpeg worked accurately and was extensively documented. Then a day there was no more here. I tried to understand the reasons and adopt avconv despite the ego wars, and those irritant message, and the cumbersome new syntax, and the lack of tutorials in internet... but finally the problem is that avconv just did not worked, and nobody really knew what to do with it. In the end I stopped using both programs. One was aparently unsafe and not installable without breaking things, and the other reinstall itself constantly, acts in a questionable way, and did not solve my problems. I guess that for Debian this was a false step that consumed time and resources but did more damage than good. Libav probably damaged also the image and dominant position of VLC. After several errors and troubles since them, its current luster is not the same as in the first years in my opinion.