HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[gralfus2]

Originally enabling shared had something to do with another error I was getting, and all advice pointed to enabling certain flags. But after much beating my head against this, I simply followed the guide using static and it seems to be working just fine now. The other part of the issue was that I didn't understand the meanings of static and shared libraries, but have a much better understanding now, so not a total waste of time.

[mc4man]

Seems good arguments here, figure Debian will not maintain both so a decision will have to be made at some point
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg

[hotel_Peru_hostal]

Great in depth job on this one.

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Seems good arguments here, figure Debian will not maintain both so a decision will have to be made at some point
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg

"Debian Multimedia Maintainers team, have finally decided to switch from Libav to FFmpeg as provider for the libav* multimedia libraries".
https://lists.debian.org/debian-deve.../msg00001.html

[andrew.46]

"Debian Multimedia Maintainers team, have finally decided to switch from Libav to FFmpeg as provider for the libav* multimedia libraries".
https://lists.debian.org/debian-deve.../msg00001.html

So perhaps the whole sorry saga is coming to an end?

[mc4man]

So perhaps the whole sorry saga is coming to an end?

It will be interesting, the next decision of some curiosity will be what does gstreamer do. Currently they use libav. If they switch back then how does libav react?

One good thing for Debian/Ubuntu is once the switch occurs then the build-deps for FFmpeg will no longer include some libav headers (seems crazy but true..
And then maybe they'll see fit to have ffmpeg-extra packages & not totally neuter aac encoding

[QDR06VV9]

It will be interesting, the next decision of some curiosity will be what does gstreamer do. Currently they use libav. If they switch back then how does libav react?

One good thing for Debian/Ubuntu is once the switch occurs then the build-deps for FFmpeg will no longer include some libav headers (seems crazy but true..
And then maybe they'll see fit to have ffmpeg-extra packages & not totally neuter aac encoding

+1

[mc4man]

It will be interesting, the next decision of some curiosity will be what does gstreamer do. Currently they use libav. If they switch back then how does libav react?

Seems gstreamer already decided to also go back to FFmpeg -

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751607

[mc4man]

Is there a command to print (display in terminal), for example from today -
N-73602-g39bbdeb
git rev-parse --short HEAD gives the 39bbdeb

[FakeOutdoorsman]

version.sh may have some clues.