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On 08/02/13 22:46, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:41:04 +0100 |
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> Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 07 of February 2013 06:52:44 Peter Stuge wrote: |
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>>> Tomáš Chvátal wrote: |
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>>>> we as gentoo will provide both while preffered default will be |
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>>>> what major distros use. |
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>>> What kind of careless mainstream attitude is that? Really? |
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>> Quite the opposite, decision to use implementation A over B was taken |
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>> with utmost care for user in mind. |
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> Not really. I was promised a discussion that hasn't happened yet. |
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I'm available for discussion anytime, I got a little busy in the past |
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days and I will busy the next 3 days, but I should be available today |
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evening or now. |
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I stated already what I think about the whole discussion in a blog post. |
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To summarize it my take is quite simple, Libav leads the way regarding |
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the main API, it offers a more compact surface for attacks if you are |
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really concerned about security and usually it is a little more compact |
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and a bit more tested over a wider range of architectures. |
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I'm not for removing ffmpeg overnight since there are features that |
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might be of use and I'm not so hypocrite to value diversity only when it |
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is in favor of my interests. |
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That said as long the two project are compatible having one or another |
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as default is just a matter of making our life easier. |
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I'm upstream for Libav and a good number of Libav developers are Gentoo |
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users, including Gentoo on special platforms (e.g. aarch64). |
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Few large projects such as VLC and Gstreamer switched to Libav as their |
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default. |
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Since Libav is the no-frills variant, notwithstanding the interesting |
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campaign of "we have more security11ein!" less stuff should break since |
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it is usually more tested and once we gather the samples triggering a |
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crash usually we do not stop preventing that single crash but the whole |
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class of possible defect (see my work on mov as an example). |
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I cannot and will not say that Libav is perfect or that no bugs are |
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introduced on our side and other outlandish statements, but within my |
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biased point of view I would expect a better experience for the user not |
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caring about which library to use. |
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If you want to discuss on #gentoo-media ping me within 30 min or in 2 hours. |
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I hope somebody not Libav nor FFmpeg committer could come up with a |
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pros-cons list. |
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