ffmpeg for EL7

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 22:03, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 08/23/2016 12:15 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> > 2016-08-23 20:06 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>:
> >> Does anyone here have any ffmpeg knowledge that would give a reason for
> >> preferring anything other than the current ffmpeg 3.1.1 for EL7?  Does ffmpeg
> >> have a long-term-support branch?
> > There is issue with stable vlc-2.2x which I plan to have in el7, also
> > the current kodi 0.16 version doesn't cope well with ffmpeg 3.1x
> > I think it's easier to have ffmpeg 3.0x in el7, but then I don't know
> > other dependencies that might have issue.

FFmpeg has a 3 month release schedule, but upstream developers are
quite accommodating to keeping one of the older branches alive if
you ask politely and explain why. It's best to start at the newest
possible, obviously.

> Seems reasonable for me.  I've filed a request for a EL7 build of ocl-icd
> here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369574
> 
> > Thx for bootstraping el7 !
> 
> Thanks for making it possible!
> 
> FWIW - I'm focusing on mplayer deps as that's my main use from rpmfusion.

Let me know if you need any help. I'm not interested in being a
full-time maintainer of MPlayer in el7 (or el6), but I'll help
whenever I can.

Regards,
Dominik
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