Avidemux 2.5.4 for F15/devel

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>> Still got a few more "taking address of a temporary" errors. Hopefully
>> the avidemux developer will create a patch for it soon.
>
> That's XvidConfigDialog having the exact same selectConfiguration issue as
> the other file, it can be fixed the exact same way. (The broken
> selectConfiguration function looks exactly the same in both files.)

I'll take a look but I may still need a little more hand holding on this one.

>> One thing the developer mentioned over at the avidemux forums was that the
>> version of x264 was to old.
>
> Nonsense. It's actually too new for Avidemux 2.5.4 (which is a 5 months old
> release). If the upstream developer had even looked at their own patch, he'd
> have easily realized this. In fact, that "Gentoo" patch comes from
> upstream's SVN repository and adds support for current versions of xvidcore.
>
>> The current version seems to be a git snapshot from July 2010.
>
> That's the version in the F14 repo, which is old enough for Avidemux 2.5.4
> to build without patching. In the F15/Rawhide repo, there's a 20110227
> snapshot which requires the Avidemux backport.

Yup, I had a brain fart. I just checked the version of my F14 system
without thinking of enabling rawhide/devel repos.

Thanks,
Richard