proposal: let's move oe-core to ffmpeg (from libav)
Hello,
let's replace libav with ffmpeg in oe-core. The reasons are:
- all of the major distributions are using ffmpeg now (the last holdout was Debian, and they switched to ffmpeg in summer 2015 after a long discussion and deliberation [1][2])
- ffmpeg is much more responsive to security issues
- ffmpeg does regular releases, while libav hasn't had one since spring 2015
- other reasons listed in [2]
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg
Objections, thoughts?
Alex
[CC'ing oe-devel]
Quoted 10 lines · Alexander Kanavin
let's replace libav with ffmpeg in oe-core. The reasons are:
- all of the major distributions are using ffmpeg now (the last holdout was Debian, and they switched to ffmpeg in summer 2015 after a long discussion and deliberation [1][2])
- ffmpeg is much more responsive to security issues
- ffmpeg does regular releases, while libav hasn't had one since spring 2015
- other reasons listed in [2]
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[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpegObjections, thoughts?
Sounds sensible to me. However we're a week away from M2 deadline so I'm not sure we'll be able to have a consensus and get patches before that unless someone is incredibly motivated.
Ross
Quoted 19 lines · Ross
[CC'ing oe-devel]
On 21 January 2016 at 15:14, Alexander Kanavin <
Quoted 14 lines · [email protected]> wrote:
let's replace libav with ffmpeg in oe-core. The reasons are:
- all of the major distributions are using ffmpeg now (the last holdout was Debian, and they switched to ffmpeg in summer 2015 after a long discussion and deliberation [1][2])
- ffmpeg is much more responsive to security issues
- ffmpeg does regular releases, while libav hasn't had one since spring 2015
- other reasons listed in [2][1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpegObjections, thoughts?
FWIW I did effectively make this same proposal last July, I think people were broadly in favour:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/107091.html
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Sounds sensible to me. However we're a week away from M2 deadline so I'm not sure we'll be able to have a consensus and get patches before that unless someone is incredibly motivated.
Right, yes.
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre