Re: [2/2] quartz: Add a libavformat based MPEG demuxer.

[Henri Verbeet]

2009/3/23 Chris Robinson :
> I wouldn't recommend this patch as being very safe. Having dealt with ffmpeg,
> my experience has been that it's ABI is not stable (the .so version number
> increments often, forcing recompilations). And when trying to update to new
> lib versions, things sometimes mysteriously break.

I'm not sure how much we should care about the ABI as long as the API
is reasonably stable, but my impression was that FFmpeg has stabilized
quite a bit in recent years.