Re: Maolan 0.0.3

Robin Gareus <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:28:43 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.audio.users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-03-21 3:30 PM, robertlazarski wrote:

> The way Ardour uses FFMPEG influenced a lot of my video workflow too.

interesting.

The main reasons we use FFmpeg as external application are codec patents 
and licensing. Calling an external tool is a clean separation and also 
allows users to use their own version with non-free codecs.

Sadly FFmpeg's CLI is not stable. Options and parameters change with 
every other major version. So Ardour only supports some specific 
versions of ffmpeg/ffprobe.

It would have been easier to directly use libavcodec/avformat/etc. but 
that would only have been possible with a limited set of codecs for the 
binary distribution.

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robin
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