[Wine] RFC: New dependency on FFmpeg?

[Florian Pelz]

On 08/21/2015 12:19 AM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> So basically I think you would have to propose inclusion of a version of
> ffmpeg into Wine's source to get the green-light (and update as
> necessary). Otherwise there will be a lot of new bug reports of crashes
> landing in a probably stripped copy of the system's ffmpeg or libav,
> with users not knowing how to give good information for debugging.
> 

ffmpeg/libav sometimes has security issues. Including a vulnerable
version with Wine would make it impossible for the user to update if
Wine were stuck on an old ffmpeg version.

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