[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] lavf: youtube support

[Timothy Gu]

On Saturday, August 24, 2013, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>
> that is the latest libquvi scripts available to the user with ubuntu
> LTS are one and a half years old


Considering that Ubuntu still uses Libav 0.8 series which was cut from
master one and a half years ago, this isn't much of a problem.


> this makes the libquvi option IMHO problematic as well. Someone
> using that distro would have not only need a recent ffmpeg that
> contains all security fixes he also would need a recent libquvi
> and not the one from ubuntu.


Of course. Ubuntu/Debian almost never backport changes from newer distro
versions unless it's security-relevant, even the most trivial ones.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libquvi-scripts


> so a native solution (if someone is willing to maintain it) does not
> seem unambigously worse to me
>
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> Asymptotically faster algorithms should always be preferred if you have
> asymptotical amounts of data
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