Comment on Reintroducing FFmpeg to DebianparentComments−birkbork12yThe reality is not like you describe it.The debian package maintainer of ffmpeg was/is one of the libav guys and decided to replace ffmpeg with libav. Judging by several frustrated comments in this thread, it has obviously been a hurtful decision.There are a few writeups of the situation on the web, here's one: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html
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The reality is not like you describe it.
The debian package maintainer of ffmpeg was/is one of the libav guys and decided to replace ffmpeg with libav. Judging by several frustrated comments in this thread, it has obviously been a hurtful decision.
There are a few writeups of the situation on the web, here's one: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html