Re: ffmpeg for EL7

2016-08-24 18:55 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com&gt;: > On 08/23/2016 12:15 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: >> 2016-08-23 20:06 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com&gt;: >>> 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. > > Given the pain of later updates, it might be worth waiting a bit for vlc 3.0 > and kodi 0.17 to land (or get sufficiently stable). I don't expect vlc-3 in EL7 as a first step. VLC 2.2x is there and more relevant for long term support, and specially since EL8 shoudn't be that far away for vlc-3x.

Based on that ffmpeg-2.8x seems a more relevant ABI to start with EL7. And later we can still update the whole multimedia stack with ffmpeg-3.1+ vlc3+ koji17 then introduce a fmpeg-2.8x as ffmpeg-compat to keep "stable ABI" This has always been a problem to build latest ffmpeg in stable release without to break ABI. we should probably have a "SCL build of ffmpeg" for those that will only rely on the ffmpeg binaries or fast moving projects using the ffmpeg libraries.