What are the implications of the ffmpeg / libav fork for users?

Please read this, interesting analysis of the situation in 2012: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

Both sides presented their point to Ubuntu Technical Board in an apparent attempt to sell own variant [1].

'libav' won, which is not surprising since Debian/Ubuntu package maintainer is one of them.

As of Dec 18, 2011 'ffmpeg' has at least one point where it works, and 'libav' doesn't [2].

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