Ubuntu
gst-libav1.0 package

  1. Bug #1694409
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1694409

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Incorrect package description (and name) of gst-libav1.0 / gstreamer1.0-libav:
Refers to libav even though Ubuntu uses FFmpeg instead of libav.

They are distinct projects:
http://libav.org/ <-- Was used in the past
https://ffmpeg.org/ <-- Now used by Ubuntu and Debian

More history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav#History

So the package description and names in Ubuntu and in Debian appear to be wrong. They should replace 'libav' with 'ffmpeg' (and confusingly both contain libav* libraries).

The incorrect wording appears to be directly inherited from upstream:
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gstreamer1.0-libav