Comment 3 for bug 1694409

Yes, the name libav was taken from the internals of ffmpeg's libav* libraries. If both libav and ffmpeg provide similar such libav* libraries then then project name "gst-libav" is not totally incorrect. Just the existence of a project that is called 'libav' which we actually no longer use is terribly confusing. I blame the people who forked libav from ffmpeg :)

I don't see any immediate need to fix the package/project name. Shorter term just fix the package description text. Longer term if libav the project is properly dead then related downstreams like gst-libav should become gst-ffmpeg (again?).