Preparing an update for FFMpeg/x264 in Rawhide today

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/25/2012 01:21 PM, Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello wrote:
> 2012/1/25 Nicolas Chauvet<kwizart at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Along with an update of vlc-2.0-rc1, I would like to make an FFmpeg to
>> current 0.9.1 version and renew x264.
>>
>>
>> There shouldn't have ffmpeg ABI change beyond relying on newer x264
>> (ABI libx264.so.120).
>> As usual with any ffmpeg update, I will kick a rebuild of MPlayer.
>>
>> Also as we expect a mass rebuild I will kick a rebuild of several
>> multimedia packages
>> I will commit the x264/FFmpeg update ASAP and target a rebuild
>> probably later this evening.
>>
>> Then, packages relying on FFmpeg will have to be rebuilt (as part of
>> the mass rebuilt), I will handle the rebuilt by the end of the week if
>> not done already.
>>
>> I would have appreciated that someone else raise it's hand to make the
>> FFmpeg update, but this didn't happened.
>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2120
>> Talking about FFmpeg, I have an EL6 candidate that I plan to commit
>> ASAP. it will be based on 0.6 with the expectation to allow a parallel
>> installation of a newer FFmpeg at a later step. (using
>> ffmpeg/ffmpeg-compat).
>
> Thanks Nicolas. Sorry I can't help. Leastwise as soon as the updates
> hit the repo, I'll test them in my Rawhide install.
>
> Can you add gstreamer-ffmpeg 0.10.13 to the list?
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2118
> Hans isn't active lately and the update appears to be straightforward.

I'm active I just have not find the time for this because the update
is not straightforward at all. gstreamer-ffmpeg is using the libav fork
of ffmpeg, and on 0.10.13 has started using a bunch of new new features from
there such as support for splitting encoding / decoding work over multiple
threads. I'm pretty sure that our "regular" ffmpeg also has this needed
multithread stuff, and hopefully uses the exact same API but this will need
to be checked and then once build the new gstreamer-ffmpeg will needs lots
of testing ...

Regards,

Hans