updating ffmpeg to 3.1.x in rawhide

[Sandro Mani]

On 27.07.2016 20:18, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> now that the dust following the f24 release and related infra work
> (thank you everyone involved) has settled, I believe we should update
> ffmpeg to 3.1.x in f25. While we will likely need to update once again
> to 3.2.x before f25 release (ffmpeg runs on 3 monthly schedule as
> opposed to Fedora's 6 months), updating early allows to weed out any
> build issues early on.
> I have done a test rebuild and found the following:
> - there are currently 40 packages dependent on ffmpeg
> - out of those, 37 rebuilt correctly
> - 3 have failed:
>    - kodi: failure looks related to curl, not to ffmpeg
>    - mlt: strange error, something about zval. build.log crashes gedit
>    - xpra-codecs-freeworld: avcodec_decode_video2 is deprecated
>
> Given the small number of failures, I would be aiming to push the new
> ffmpeg to rawhide and rebuild dependent packages on Saturday. Please
> speak up if you don't agree.
Just a curiosity, will you be building against openjpeg2? This would be 
a good opportunity to do so, since the openjpeg 1.x series looks dead 
upstream and has some unfixed CVEs [1]. According to [2] openjpeg2 
support should have landed some time ago in ffmpeg.

Thanks
Sandro


[1] 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&classification=Fedora&component=openjpeg&list_id=5547156&order=Importance&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced
[2] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2016