README.Debian for FFmpeg
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If you want to compile your program using these FFmpeg libraries, you
can use the lib*-ffmpeg-dev packages, which include the necessary
headers and pkg-config files.

IF YOU ARE A MULTIMEDIA MAINTAINER READ THIS

FFmpeg provides more formats and codecs support for your application
than Libav. For a comparison, see e.g. http://lucy.pkh.me/diff/.
It also has slight API differences to Libav. If your package's upstream
uses FFmpeg for development, you should try to change your build-dependencies
to the lib*-ffmpeg-dev packages and see if your bugs vanish.

The lintian error shlib-with-non-pic-code is overridden on any-i386
architectures, because the upstream build system doesn't use -fPIC there.
This is done due to performance reasons.

 -- Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun@googlemail.com>  Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:07:26 +0200