talk about a STRICT forum! lol

[woodsmoke]

I was converting some vids today and terminal said that ffmpeg was deprecated and that I should change to avconv.

It has complained before but I didn't do anything so I thought I'd install it and didn't find it in the repos, so I searched for the ppa and ran across a forum comparing the two and found a thread that had been closed because.....

closed as primarily opinion-based

Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.

wellll okaaay......but... perusing the question data and since the posting............. it has been viewed....

13626 times

!! lol

Soooooo I guess that, even though it was not a "good" question, apparently at least a FEW people thought it, and maybe the two responses, were'nt exactly linburger cheese!

Glad THIS forum is not quite so strict! lol

woodsmoke

[vinnywright]

Ahum..... yo woody ,, avconv is in the libav-tools package ......

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

.... Glad THIS forum is not quite so strict! ....

Dittos. When my children were growing up they understood that NO topic was off the discussion table. Fighting and name calling were not allowed, but no topic was forbidden.

[geoaraujo]

Fighting and name calling were not allowed, but no topic was forbidden.

Let's see if that is correct.

Edit: It's not. Some people are allowed to spread political propaganda. But others are not allowed to express a different opinion.

[claydoh]

askubuntu is NOT a forum, really. While it could be argued what is opinion and what is answer, the statement for the removal/holding/closing is a stock boilerplate the the stackexchange software used at askubuntu (and many other similar sites).

I think that these sites are attempting to focus on purely technical issues, ie problems and solutions. Hence the request to rephrase a question.
I believe that askubuntu soon, if not already, will supplant ubuntuforums as the main way users get assistance, as it seems to be way way more successful.

[woodsmoke]

vinny I did NOT know that, thank you 1

Annnnndddd the forum to which I was referring is not askubuntu, I did not post the forum's name apurpose so that no body would know.

woodsmoke

[claydoh]

vinny I did NOT know that, thank you 1

Annnnndddd the forum to which I was referring is not askubuntu, I did not post the forum's name apurpose so that no body would know.

woodsmoke

Was guessing, but I'll bet for sure it is a stack exchange site

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[Qqmike]

you can easily google ...

closed as primarily opinion-based

Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.

[SteveRiley]

vinny I did NOT know that, thank you 1

http://packages.ubuntu.com/ is a great place to find an answer to the question, "What package provides file foo?"

[woodsmoke]

I know NOTHING!! I SEE NOTHING!!



woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

We knew that! :ROFL:

[dibl]

The original issue (ffmpeg vs. libav) is not really a "forum moderation" problem. It is more of a "split the church" problem: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

As you can see after absorbing the political aspect of it, there is unlikely to be a ton of objective discussion of this topic by anyone who actually knows a lot about it.

[woodsmoke]

only at KFN would a relatively benign question about software descent into politics.

HAARUMPHH At least I........have never been accused of THAT!! lol

not!

which for the brits, in the U.S. when there is a double not not, one gets a clove hitch not a political statement!
lol

woodhasfoundthatffmpegmaybedeprecatedbutitdoeswork !smoke

[perspectoff]

Yeah, I also take exception to the false propaganda of some bit of software or other being labeled as "deprecated" in favor of some other software. This is often false advertising, IMO.

It's like when a virus-peddler tries to sell you (or convince you to install) a "virus scan."

There's something quite unethical about that...