Upgrading EL7 with a newer ffmpeg
Hi there,
With the update gstreamer packages to 1.10.4 (that was due in RHEL 7.4
already), the gstreamer1-libav package has bumped the requirement to
ffmpeg 3.X. So we are currently in a in-between state.
There is also a need to a newer ffmpeg with vlc 3.x that I consider
upgrading EL7 to (current vlc 2.2.x version is unmaintained, even
debian stable updated from 2.2.x to 3.x because of that).
We might give an opportunity to update x264/x265 too and eventually
refresh some dependencies here.
My plans would be to update to either ffmpeg 3.3x or 3.4.x (the latest
from the 3.x branch). there is already a compat-ffmpeg28 package ready
to ease the transition.
There isn't a terribly high number of el7 packages that depends on
ffmpeg fortunately (or not).
And it's a shame because EL7 has way more users than any Fedora
releases together (according to epel stats (2)).
So I really would like some volunteer to take a deeper look at what we
can support here.
Thx
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$ repoquery --whatrequires libavcodec.so.56\* --source
audacity-freeworld-2.0.6-1.el7.src.rpm
ffmpeg-2.8.15-1.el7.src.rpm
ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.0-3.el7.src.rpm
ffms2-2.23-2.el7.src.rpm
gpac-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm
ffmpeg-2.8.15-1.el7.src.rpm
libopenshot-0.2.0-1.el7.src.rpm
libquicktime-1.2.4-13.el7.src.rpm
mplayer-1.1-23.20140414svn.el7.src.rpm
mlt-freeworld-6.4.1-1.el7.src.rpm
motion-3.3.0-trunkREV557.9.el7.src.rpm
mpd-0.19.21-1.el7.src.rpm
mplayer-1.1-23.20140414svn.el7.src.rpm
mpv-0.23.0-3.el7.src.rpm
libopenshot-0.2.0-1.el7.src.rpm
qmmp-plugins-freeworld-0.8.8-1.el7.src.rpm
libopenshot-0.2.0-1.el7.src.rpm
simplescreenrecorder-0.3.11-1.el7.src.rpm
transcode-1.1.7-17.el7.src.rpm
tvheadend-4.0.9-3.el7.src.rpm
vlc-2.2.8-2.el7.src.rpm
x264-0.148-11.20160614gita5e06b9.el7.src.rpm
xine-lib-1.2.9-2.el7.src.rpm
zoneminder-1.30.4-3.el7.src.rpm
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https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/statistics/2018-09-04/repos...
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Nicolas (kwizart)