On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 10:16:53PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> multimedia/avinfo needs to be fixed for -fno-common, but I'm leaning
> towards just removing it.
> 
>   Avinfo is an utility for displaying AVI, MPEG, OGG/OGM, MKV, 
>   IFO header information. It returns the length of a clip, FPS, 
>   resolution, codecs, sound parameters, and the number, type and 
>   language of the stream.
> 
> The last release was some 15 years ago.  Which means it won't even
> recognize some of today's formats.  I tried to run it against a
> recent A/V file, and it just dumped core from free().
> 
> Nowadays, mediainfo provides such functionality.
> 
> OK to remove?

I don't think it provides any value compared to ffprobe and similar.

okay

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