FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0

While we have been looking towards an FFmpeg 1.0 release for nearly one year, the version 1.0 release of the popular FFmpeg library was finally tagged after being in development for more than one decade...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDM

[Awesomeness]

The question should be who still uses ffmpeg? Maybe the win builds of vlc or the integrated ffmpeg in xbmc, but most others use libav.

VLC has a copy of ffmpeg and only ffmpeg (not libav) in its repository. VLC uses ffmpeg on every platform by default. You and your niche distro may do it differently but no one else cares and uses ffmpeg.

[Ansla]

The question should be who still uses ffmpeg? Maybe the win builds of vlc or the integrated ffmpeg in xbmc, but most others use libav.

Just about everybody who uses a distribution that is not derived from Debian.

[XorEaxEax]

The question should be who still uses ffmpeg? Maybe the win builds of vlc or the integrated ffmpeg in xbmc, but most others use libav.

I seriously doubt this, from the top of my head I can think of blender, vlc, mpd, amarok, gegl, xine, k3b, vtk, which uses ffmpeg, which software depends on libav?

[Nille]

The question should be who still uses ffmpeg?

Im using it. Because i get from ffmpeg working Windows builds with libass. And under the sheets i need only the libass video filter, x264 as encoder and sometimes an aac encoder.

[bug77]

The question should be who still uses ffmpeg? Maybe the win builds of vlc or the integrated ffmpeg in xbmc, but most others use libav.

Google uses ffmpeg. It's shipped with Chrome afaik.

[tancrackers]

Oxelon Media Converter on Windows uses ffmpeg. It used to be a great media converter, but it now crashes everytime. Oh well.
I'm glad to see this and gstreamer having stable releases.

[GreatEmerald]

Awesome, this is quite impeccable timing! I was just wondering about when they are going to release a new version. Didn't expect it to be a 1.0, though. Once this gets published and picked up by Packman developers, I will be able to get rid of a custom-compiled version of it I have sitting in my /opt, as there is one critical performance fix in later commits that allows for recording PulseAudio and video streams at the same time without dropping frames. Good job, FFmpeg devs!

It was an interesting read there, Teho. It looks like libav developers hit the same problem that they tried to avoid in the first place... But at least the competition allows for the betterment of FFmpeg. They should become more separate indeed, to have more than just a name and attitude difference.

[kaszak]

The ffmpeg package in Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) is actually a concealed libav library, because the package maintainer took libav's side during the feud. None of the other major distributions made libav default, the "program is deprecated" message is just a childish FUD from the libav devs.

[Adarion]

I tried libav some months ago on Gentoo but was still running into a lot of problems since some apps absolutely seemed to depend on ffmpeg but I couldn't have both on my system.