[arch-general] ffmpeg and libav

[Matthew Monaco]

On 02/11/2012 12:55 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> On 02/11/2012 07:30 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> On 02/11/2012 09:26 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>>> I am not part of the libav team, but I know many developers and I
>>> followed the story
>>> of the fork.
>>> I then also noticed that my beloved arch is still using ffmpeg and libav
>>> is not even in
>>> the official repository (but only in AUR).
>>>
>>> Is there a reason for that?
>>>
>> because nothing in our repositories requires libav
>
> Everything requiring ffmpeg might require libav instead, which is quite a lot of
> stuff.
>
>>
>>> There are quite a few good reasons to switch over and many already did:
>>> - debian unstable
>>> (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-December/023070.html)
>>>
>>>
>> the inclusion in debian is questionable and I don't want to open the
>> pandora box and start a long and boring discussion about this.
>>
>> see my point 1).
>
> Which was?
>
> I've seen a couple of threads on the forum and it's quite shocking how much FUD and
> wrong information there is in there, doesn't it make you think the fact that
> also gstreamer
> and VLC are using libav?

What are mplayer and mplayer2 using? I was trying to figure this out recently.