Why would I choose Libav over FFmpeg, or is there even a difference?

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Chapters
00:00 Question
00:54 Accepted answer (Score 127)
05:20 Answer 2 (Score 39)
07:35 Answer 3 (Score 9)
10:20 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/507386/w...

Accepted answer links:
[Last commit]: https://git.libav.org/?
[re-organization of the community]: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-deve...
[Discussions and meetings]: https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpe...
[Who can tell me the difference and relation between ffmpeg, libav, and avconv]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9477756/1109...
[Who can tell me...]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9477756/1109...
[compile guide]: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Compilation...
[FFmpeg Download]: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
[The FFmpeg/Libav situation]: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav...

Answer 2 links:
[Gentoo]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gent...
[Debian]: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-pro...
[debian debate]: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-pro...
[google blog post]: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co....
[libav mailing list]: https://lists.libav.org/pipermail/libav-...
[post from a libav dev]: http://codecs.multimedia.cx/?
[commit stats]: http://lucy.pkh.me/ffstats/authors.html#...
[debian]: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/ffmpeg-re...
[ubuntu]: https://lwn.net/Articles/650495/

Answer 3 links:
[here]: http://ffmpeg.org
[this]: http://code.google.com/p/winff/issues/de...
[1]: http://ffmpeg.org

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