[Bf-committers] ffmpeg library update

[neXyon]

Hi!

We should definitely update the one for static linking to the linux release.

Most distributions so far don't have libav in their standard 
repositories yet, so most distros and devs will still link against 
ffmpeg, also there's no libav build for win64 yet so we'll have to wait 
for that too if we want to switch completely to libav. But as long as we 
maintain our code so that it's possible to link against both versions I 
don't see too much problems (at least not more than we're used to have 
with ffmpeg...) supporting both.

So back to the version we should use for the linux release: I'd really 
like to try libav. Although I didn't try it out yet (because my distro 
doesn't have any packages yet), I got a good impression of libav when I 
joined both IRC channels #ffmpeg and #libav when trying to find a 
workaround for a bug [1] and got really useful help in #libav.

But in the end it doesn't really matter at the moment and the future 
will show which project survives.

I think other questions are more interesting, lately someone came up in 
IRC with switching ffmpeg output to a CLI interface, though that would 
leave the decoding with ffmpeg as it is now. Another possibility would 
be to switch to gstreamer, but here some say it might be too big a 
dependency.

Regards

[1] 
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=26990&group_id=9&atid=498