ffmpeg vs libav: Please clarify the situation

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.05.2013, 20:51 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:54 PM, John Moser <john.r.moser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've stumbled across this:
> >
> > http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html
> [...]
> > This can't all parse at once.  Something is wrong here.
> >
> > Will somebody please explain what's going on?
> 
> Most of the driving forces behind what was formerly known as FFmpeg is
> now continuing under the name Libav. Continuing to follow Libav
> instead of FFmpeg is the more conservative, and IMO the better choice.

Do you have some numbers for this claim?

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer