![]() Most distros have switched back/are switching back to ffmpeg ( Gentoo, Debian) To get FFmpeg you can follow a compile guide or see the download links for executables on the FFmpeg Download page.įor more info see The FFmpeg/Libav situation. To the casual user, there should not be huge differences. The main difference for users is that FFmpeg merges many commits from libav, but it's not so reciprocal since libav seems to pretend that FFmpeg does not exist and only occasionally cherry-picks from FFmpeg. This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility.Ī small improvement in my opinion, but I feel as if it is not clear enough. Some Ubuntu users thought the message was too misleading and it was later changed to: ***THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED*** I don't know if libav intended users to think this, but they probably enjoyed this side-effect. Remember the difference between FFmpeg and ffmpeg? Of course this message thoroughly confused many users who understandably did not make the distinction between project and tool especially Ubuntu users who were not aware that their distro did a switcharoo or users who never heard of libav. In this case the "ffmpeg" mentioned in the message was libav's temporary version which was later removed (as was the message). Use avconv instead (see Changelog for the list of incompatible changes). When users attempted to use libav's ffmpeg they got the following message: This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility. Ubuntu switched during the transitional period when libav supplied both their version of ffmpeg and their renamed tool avconv. From the perspective of libav this was their best move: to force a large user community to use the fork. As a member of libav, the ffmpeg maintainer in Debian and Ubuntu then decided to switch the distro to use libav. link, when libav forked from FFmpeg they also temporarily supplied their version of ffmpeg. So, as we learned from the Who can tell me. Users often think "project" when "tool" is being discussed which leads to. For a short time libav also had a ffmpeg. avconv is the name of their command line tool. ffmpeg is the name of their command line tool. The poorly worded message(s) users get when they try to use libav's ffmpeg.Users not differentiating between the projects, FFmpeg and libav, and their respective command-line tools, ffmpeg and avconv.Discussions and meetings are still on-going, but after 8 years since the fork this may mark the beginning of a re-integration.įirst of all see Who can tell me the difference and relation between ffmpeg, libav, and avconv. ![]() A 5-person Technical Resolution Committee has been created with (former) Libav members holding two seats and Libav developers are welcome to join the General Assembly–a voting board for decision making. This is partly due to Jean-Baptiste Kempf (VideoLAN president) recently spearheading the re-organization of the community. ![]() Some Libav developers are now participating again in FFmpeg.
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