JuliaLang/METADATA.jl — pull request #1224 by kmsquire (2014-08-11 08:11:18+00:00)
Title: Register AV

Yes, another 2-letter package requesting to be registered... ;-)

This is the initial wrapping of libav/ffmpeg libraries, which handle almost all aspects of audio/video file/stream decoding/encoding.

It is based off of work started by @ihnorton and (I believe) @timholy a while back.

I've been working slowly but steadily on this for a couple of months, getting feedback as available from Isaiah, Tim, and @lucasb-eyer

libav was forked from ffmpeg sometime around 2010-2011. The libraries are mostly compatible with each other, although there isn't much love between the two projects.

AV.jl was chosen as boring and relatively neutral name after a brief discussion [here](https://github.com/ihnorton/libAV.jl/pull/2), since the general plan is to support both libav and ffmpeg as long as that is feasible.

That said, if anyone has a less boring suggestion for a name...

I actually want to go through a brief test period before tagging a version, to see how well this installs on different platforms. I'll make an announcement on the mailing lists as soon as things are settled here.