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About x264: why use a github mirror repo instead of a videolan repo? #332

Closed Aniark closed 3 months ago

Aniark commented 6 months ago

I've noticed that the build script used to use the videolan repo https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/blob/b4bbce3020bbb1de61a7cc1361a8cd57ad417d91/scripts.d/50-x264.sh#L3-L4

then switched to the github mirror repo https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/blob/3119034c9234be55afaccecfe3a457bb4e0eb402/scripts.d/50-x264.sh#L3-L4

but the videolan repo seems to be more actively maintained, so I'd like to know why

BtbN commented 6 months ago

Cause videolan infrastructure is too unreliable, specially in regards to their peering with github. Also, the army of builds this repo and its forks produce is quite a substantial server and bandwidth load, so whenever a project has a Github mirror, I will prefer it.

Aniark commented 6 months ago

On github, Anton Mitrofanov , one of the primarily developer of x264, has a x264 repo that maintains a more active than the mirror/x264 repo, could this be a better alternative?

BtbN commented 6 months ago

Supposedly videolan fixed their peering issues with Github, so I'll give it a try again. Cachine has improved a lot since then as well.