gst-ffmpeg 0.10.12 and FFmpeg bump

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2011/7/28 Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello <marcosfrm at gmail.com>:
> As I posted on rpmfusion-users, gst-ffmpeg 0.10.12 is out and it
> requires the new ABI FFmpeg/Libav libs.
>
> Do you have plans to update it for F15? For F16 at least we should be
> testing it.
>
> Marcos
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello <marcosfrm at gmail.com>
> Date: 2011/7/19
> Subject: FFmpeg x Libav
> To: RPM Fusion users discussion list <rpmfusion-users at lists.rpmfusion.org>
>
>
> I'm curious about what one RPM Fusion will be packing when gst-ffmpeg
> 0.10.12 is relesead. Upstream GStreamer, starting with gst-ffmpeg
> 0.10.12, will recommend (and support) only Libav [1]. Also, there's
> the ABI/API incompatibility between FFmpeg 0.6/0.7-oldabi/Libav 0.6
> and Libav 0.7/FFmpeg 0.8.
>
> gst-ffmpeg 0.10.12 will work only with the new ABI [2]. VLC supports
> the new ABI in the 1.2.0-dev code only, I think.
>
> Since the libraries SONAME got bumped in the new ABI code, I see the
> only solution is to have both, until all programs that depends on
> libav* are updated.
>
> BTW, it would be cool have gst-ffmpeg 0.10.12 + new ffmpeg/libav into
> F15, because the multithreading stuff.

IIRC ffmpeg 0.7 oldabi already has multithreading.

But Anyway, this only matters for f16 givent that gstreamer might only
be updated to 0.12 there.

Nicolas (kwizart)