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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: USE=libav news item
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:37:23
Message-Id: 20150126123709.4ebc3d45@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Review: USE=libav news item by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:39:04 +0100
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Users who want to use the ffmpeg fork
5 > instead need to specify USE=-libav explicitly.
6
7 As Peter said, please avoid such controversial statements.
8
9 > The most notable example of such package is
10 > media-video/mplayer which relies on deprecated APIs available only in
11 > ffmpeg.
12
13 This is false: mplayer uses new "APIs" available only in ffmpeg.
14 Again, please avoid controversy.
15
16 > media-video/mplayer2 or media-video/mpv may be used as a more
17 > modern replacement.
18
19 Don't recommend mplayer2, afaik it's dead.
20
21 Alexis.

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