[mdlug] Ffmpeg Problem

Paul set.mailinglist at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 04:49:42 EDT 2014


Bob <bob at starlinephoto.com>, on Wed  2014.06.18 said:
> I found this interesting, running Debian sid
> 
> ffmpeg -formats
> ffmpeg version 0.8.8-6:0.8.8-1, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
>   built on Aug  8 2013 23:20:03 with gcc 4.8.1
> *** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
> This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a
> future release. Please use avconv instead. 

        Hi;

        Libav is a fork of ffmpeg. Debian and by extention Ubuntu
decided to support the libav stack. The thing that is deprecated
is the 'ffmpeg' wrapper (that uses libav) to provide backward
compatibility with the original ffmpeg executable. Some people,
at least for some cases prefer the original ffmpeg project, which
is still healthy and developing. (this is all somewhat confusing
becuase both libav and ffmpeg provide a mutually exclusive set
of libraries that other things can link to... like mplayer.)
        So... when one person types 'ffmpeg', they may be using
an entirely different underlying codebase than another persons 'ffmpeg'

Paul

ps. there exists a ppa for the original ffmpeg and guides for
switching out there.



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