I would also very much like to see fully functional ffmpeg binaries in debian. I really see little difference here between the situation with imagemagic and graphicsmagic which has never been a point of contention as long as I've been aware.
It may be true that the ffmpeg binary is used less often than the libraries, but when the binary is used, it's often used in much more mission critical areas. I built a web app for a client that uses ffmpeg to convert user contributed videos into flv for streaming. The conversion to libav has been a nightmare. We've ended up using the deb-multimedia packages for now but using that repo on a server is something I'd really like to avoid. As I understand it, the causes of the ffmpeg/libav split were 95% political. It's really a shame that the consequences of this are being passed on to users when there was no good reason for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
