Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Hi.
As I anticipate a lot of discussion and bikeshedding on this bug report, I am going to preface it with some information. I am including some people that may be interested parties in the CC'ies. Motivated by Debian's bug #729147 being closed, by the fact that some software either needs or recommends ffmpeg (see below), I think that Debian should provide the *option* of using ffmpeg instead of libav to its users. ffmpeg has many features that libav lacks and it is, as I understand it, the set of ffmpeg's features are a strict superset of that of libav's. When I read that libav was going to be forked, I thought that, given the non-explicit reports on what happened at the time, it was a good thing. A few years later, I think that I was wrong and libav doesn't suit me as both a user and a package of other programs. Just off the top of my head, here are some packages that either depend on or recommend ffmpeg (sometimes, embedding their own copy of ffmpeg): * mpv: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav#situation-today * xbmc: http://xbmc.org/xbmc-13-gotham-april-and-may-cycles/ * mythtv: https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/tree/master/mythtv/external * chromium: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=libffmpegsumo.so You can see a reply to Josh Triplett at http://bugs.debian.org/721317#18 pointing out some extra arguments. This bug, in fact, is more of an Intent to Package than a Request for Package, but I will leave it as a RFP because I don't really know if I will have the enthusiasm to sustain the packaging during long times. What I *do* know is that, whenever I hit a limitation with libav, that enthusiasm all of a sudden comes back. I don't want any flamewar or anything. I just want to use my computer to do things that it currently doesn't. So, without further ado, here goes the skeleton of the RFP/ITP: ---- * Package name : ffmpeg Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Name <someb...@example.org> * URL : http://ffmpeg.org/ * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/ DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
