[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] AVFilter

[Neal Gompa]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 4:39 AM Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
>
> Le perjantaina 18. lokakuuta 2024, 14.42.46 EEST Nicolas George a écrit :
> > That might be true if you only consider commercial projects. For
> > community projects and hobby projects, that is certainly not true at
> > all.
> >
> > And I want to emphasize that community projects and hobby projects
> > deserve our consideration as much as commercial projects.
>
> Community and hobby projects can just as well patch FFmpeg. In fact, they can
> more easily do so as they don't have to go through corporate compliance
> theatrics on how to (not) patch external projects or OSS code.
>
> > > Debian is rather the exception than the rule as far as providing usable
> > > FFmpeg shared libraries in the system.
> >
> > Debian and its derivatives make already a significant part of the
> > available distros.
>
> > But it is quite easy to check that most other distros do have shared
> > FFmpeg on the system.
>
> Well no, it is quite hard to check something false.
>
> Red Hat and most enterprise distros do not.
> Fedora does not.
> Ubuntu ships a cut-down version in their main repositories.
>

What? Fedora has been shipping FFmpeg in the repositories since Fedora
Linux 36 as shared libraries. It has been available for RHEL through
EPEL since RHEL 9 as well.

It's even documented in the FFmpeg tracker:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Downstreams

SUSE Linux Enterprise has shipped FFmpeg for a very long time too.
It's at least present in SLE 15, and will be present in the upcoming SLE 16.

Nearly all Linux distribution families now ship FFmpeg as shared libraries.




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