ffmpeg has native vp8 decoder and uses it by default. libvpx is only and preferred encoder now, however decoding with libvpx was not removed. ffmpeg -codecs|grep -i vp8 FFmpeg version SVN-r25117, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers ... DEV libvpx libvpx VP8 D V D vp8 On2 VP8 http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=commitdiff;h=49fb632ffa43a44f2e339362ffaa844eef11fbea
(In reply to comment #0) > ffmpeg has native vp8 decoder and uses it by default. libvpx is only and > preferred encoder now, however decoding with libvpx was not removed. then there is nothing to change: people may want to use libvpx too. I updated metadata.xml though