On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 01:32:40 +0800 Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 4 February 2015 at 17:26, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 10:12:12 +0100 > > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> With the recent introduction of the libav USE flag, the Gentoo > >> default for ffmpeg vs libav is more pronounced than it was before > >> (with libav being listed first in || ( ) dependencies). > >> > >> In the replies to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=7694982 > >> several users have expressed their preference for ffmpeg. > >> > >> So can someone please remind me what are the technical reasons why > >> we prefer libav over ffmpeg? > > > > > > good luck ! > > > > wait for other opinions, but I'd say: libav has a cleaner codebase > > and stricter development rules. (NB: some gentoo devs are member of > > the core libav dev team) > > > > > > IMHO, from a pure consumer POV where I want to play a random video > > and my programs using the libraries not to break, ffmpeg is much > > better (more codecs get in faster, API is preserved a bit longer), > > so I never understood nor agreed with that choice of default. > > I think for our users the latter is more important. > > After all the discussion we had here and on the forums, > I propose we change the default to ffmpeg. > > Thoughts? I'd say let libav be default in developer profiles, ffmpeg in base. It's good to have the stricter one default for developers in order not to make it completely unusable for users. Alexis.
