Summary of FFmpeg and Libav?

[iwod]

I dont know what happen, Libav pop out of no where. FFmpeg looks to fallen apart, DS said he will no longer contribute to FFmpeg AND Libav.

Then all of a sudden i realize FFmpeg is back to normal. MT merged, and Libav state many Linux distributions are using them.

Can someone just summarize what is going on?

[jethro]

Isn't it just a name change?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Nope. As far as I understood, some of the FFmpeg developers were not happy with the management and thus decided to continue their work as the "libav" project - under their own management.

I don't know if the original "FFmpeg" project will remain under active development and if the remaining FFmpeg developers will back-port updates/fixes from libav (or vice versa) :confused:

[nevcairiel]

original ffmpeg still sees active development.
Also, ffmpeg is merging all changes from "libav", but thats not really happening the other way around, so me personally, i'm using ffmpeg, as it contains all changes and improvements.

Like mentioned above, ffmpeg already merged ffmpeg-mt (which i think libav hasn't done yet), and i saw support for h264 10bit decoding go in, although i didn't test if thats complete yet.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I really hope this won't lead to the unfortunate situation where some feature/improvements are only in 'libav' and some are only in 'FFmpeg'.

[J_Darnley]

Michael, the lead of FFmpeg, has said that he will continue to merge libav back into FFmpeg. Even if the APIs of the two code bases were to drift apart it would probably still be trivial to port new codecs, etc between them.