Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC News item: FFmpeg default

[Ben de Groot]

On 7 April 2015 at 15:00, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 07:13:16 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
>
>> >>  Please also note that some packages support only one of the two
>> >>  implementations. An attempt to install one of those packages may
>> >> result in blockers requiring the user changes the global USE=libav
>> >> state. The most notable example of such package is
>> >> media-video/mplayer. -media-video/mpv may be used as a replacement
>> >> for users who prefer libav. +media-video/mpv may be used as a
>> >> replacement for users who prefer libav, +even though upstream mpv
>> >> developers recommend using ffmpeg.
>> >
>> > This is off-topic, and strongly biased.
>>
>> The original statement may give the impression that mpv is to libav
>> what mplayer is to ffmpeg. Many users were surprised to find out that
>> mpv upstream actually recommends ffmpeg, and that some of mpv's
>> features do not work with libav. If we are going to specifically
>> recommend mpv, then it is something users need to be aware of.
>>
>> We could change it to: media-video/mpv works with both ffmpeg and
>> libav, though some of its features require ffmpeg. Or something along
>> those lines.
>
>
> I'd rather drop entirely that part about mplayer/mpv; I agree this is
> something users need to be aware of if we recommend mpv but with ffmpeg
> as default the "mplayer hard requires ffmpeg" is no longer an issue.
> Otherwise, we might as well note that gst-libav recommends... heh...
> libav, and as such all gst based players (totem, firefox, etc.)
>
> Alexis.
>

Good point. So let's drop "The most notable example ..." until the end
of the paragraph.

And since this is now on the Council's agenda, we're waiting for their decision.

-- 
Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer