[OE-core] RFC: libav vs. ffmpeg, redux

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi all,

A few years ago we made the switch from ffmpeg to libav (a mostly drop-in 
compatible fork), with fairly good justification at the time. However, it looks 
like Debian has just made the switch back to ffmpeg, citing a number of reasons 
- most notably more responsive security issue patching in recent history. 
Here's a page with their full reasoning:

  https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg

Gstreamer (gst-libav, specifically) has also just recently made the switch back 
for its internal copy:

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

What do people think? Should we be looking to make the switch back in OE as 
well?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre