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

Timothy Gu timothygu99 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 24 19:52:47 CEST 2013


On Saturday, August 24, 2013, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Clément Bœsch <u <at> pkh.me> writes:
>
> > You should discuss such changes before making them...
> > We already have libquvi support
>
> The historical approach was to reimplement external
> libraries just to reduce the dependencies.
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here>

I am not sure I understand how it is simpler to
> update an external library than updating FFmpeg.
> (Especially given our own attitude towards git
> head.)
>

How about distro users?

Timothy


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