ffmpeg on F-10

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 20.05.2009 19:31, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>
>> $ rpm -q ffmpeg
>> ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.55.20080908.fc10.x86_64
>>
>> This is a rather old version. Considering the EOL of F-10 is Jan 2010,
>> and at that time this ffmpeg version will be 16 months old...
>>
>> I know that important bugfixes are being backported but still, there
>> are still annoying ffmpeg bugs:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213
>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359
>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527#c73
>>
>> The first bug report above is over 5 months old. Still, no action is
>> taken. People using F-11 report that they don't have these problems.
>>
>> What is the cost of updating ffmpeg on F-10?
>
> Note that Dominik once considered to update ffmpeg
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.rpmfusion.devel/3195/
>
> But he afaics got distracted. But part of the question are answered in that
> thread (see my reply there). In short: everything imho must me properly
> prepared and tested before it's committed, to make sure its a smart and
> painless move for everyone involved.
>

I read it now. It looks like he changed his mind after some people
mentioned about maintaining stability. However this is not the case
now. There are these outstanding bugs. Moreover, I suspect that
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226
is suffering from an old ffmpeg bug too.

I think that the upgrade deserves a reconsideration. Rathann, do you copy?

Orcan