Merge tags php-ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

In theory these two tags are supposed to represent several different PHP libraries/extensions/ffmpegwrappers:

• ffmpeg-php (101 questions tagged) is for FFmpegPHP and ffmpeg-php (a dead project since 2007).
• php-ffmpeg (28 questions tagged) is for PHP-FFMpeg.

I don't think it really matters which one becomes the main tag, but ffmpeg-php does have more questions.

Problems

• In practice the main distinction between them is a minor, yet confusing, spelling difference.

• It appears that many users generally don't seem to notice the (probably useless) difference in intended projects resulting in missing tags, incorrect tags, or they take the shotgun approach of including both.

• The tags are also often added by those using PHP with the ffmpeg binary and not necessarily using any of the three mentioned libraries.

• I don't believe these libraries get enough questions to deserve two (semi-)different tags.

Possible Solutions

Merge the tags then...

1. Make it simple and use one tag for all PHP + ffmpeg questions–regardless if/which library is being used, or if the user is just directly using the ffmpeg binary in their script.

or

2. Make it explicitly clear that the merged tag is only for such libraries and PHP + ffmpegbinary usage should use php and ffmpeg. (Although I am somewhat doubtful that users will make this distinction but either option is fine with me.)