lavfi has been considered to be stable for a while now, so it is enabled in most configurations. Supporting avplay without lavfi requires a lot of nontrivial ifdef mess for no good reason.
dd53af4 avplay: drop support for building without lavfi
avplay.c | 89 ++++---------------------------------------------------------
configure | 4 +--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
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