[mythtv] Decision on FFmpeg repository

[John P Poet]

When talking to the FFmpeg devs, they always push for use of Master.  They
claim it is generally stable.

One advantage of FFmpeg master, is that when they do deprecate an old API,
we would have a bit more "notice" since compiling then results in all of
the deprecated messages showing up.

A bad thing, is the mess of all those deprecated messages showing up! They
can be quite annoying.

As Peter has discovered, trying to use the FFmpeg branches is problematic.
It would be nice if MythTV master == FFmpeg master, and MythTV fixes ==
FFmpeg <latest stable>, but I don't think that is practical.

If David and Aman are willing / able to get our patches pushed to FFmpeg,
then this <hopefully> would become a non-issue, since we could just add an
external dependency on FFmpeg, instead of including it.  Again, that is
probably not practical, though.

John
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