Based on the idea that, if needed for future development reference, all the old ffmpeg/libav wrappers can be accessed via git history (as explained in the new README, where v0.5.6 is referenced as it is the last released version with the BinDeps build), and don't need to be in the active package.
A more extreme version of https://github.com/JuliaIO/VideoIO.jl/pull/170
Based on the idea that, if needed for future development reference, all the old ffmpeg/libav wrappers can be accessed via git history (as explained in the new README, where v0.5.6 is referenced as it is the last released version with the BinDeps build), and don't need to be in the active package.
All mentions of libav in docs have been removed
Package lines of code
Pre-build master = 75,977
tidy-extreme = 12,756 (-83%, i.e. ~6x smaller)
Post-build (MacOS) master = 284,910
tidy-exteme = 221,685 (-22%)