ports/106503: multimedia/ffmpeg - Request using ffmpeg-devel as ffmpeg

[Michael Johnson]

>Number:         106503
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       multimedia/ffmpeg - Request using ffmpeg-devel as ffmpeg
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 09 01:50:08 GMT 2006
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>Originator:     Michael Johnson
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>Description:
I've been debating about asking this for a few months now,
FFmpeg 0.4.9-pre1 has become stale and out dated, 
many projects, OpenBSD, Debian, Gentoo, and more, have
switched from using FFmpeg releases to the CVS snapshots
as their main source for FFmpeg. Many developers that depend
upon FFmpeg have dropped support for even the newest pre-release
of FFmpeg.

VLC dropped support for 0.4.9-pre1 some time ago and I
have been patching VLC to partially support FFmpeg 0.4.9.
FFmpeg has changed so dramatically in the past year and
a half that the next version of VLC won't even be worth
patching to support 0.4.9.

This is true with quite a few ports in the ports tree also,
libquicktime needs newer FFmpeg, see the multimedia@
mailing list for complaints about plist, libxine, and
more.

I want to propose that we move ffmpeg-devel -> ffmpeg, it's 
been proven it works by a few projects listed above, and
it will give our users better multimedia support with out
having to spend time trying to patch ports to keep old
API support.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
move ffmpeg-devel -> ffmpeg
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