Debian in the upcoming 9 release has switched back to FFMPEG.
Here follow the snippet fo kodi-bin package dependencies
Debian 9:
Quote:dep: libavcodec57 (>= 7:3.2.4)
FFmpeg library with de/encoders for audio/video codecs – runtime files
or libavcodec-extra57 (>= 7:3.2.4)
FFmpeg library with additional de/encoders for audio/video codecs
Ubuntu Zesty:
Quote:libavformat57 (>= 7:3.2.4)
FFmpeg library with (de)muxers for multimedia containers – runtime files
The Kodi version on debian 9 and ubuntu Zesty repos could be considered now like equal of main team kodi ppa?