libx264 update for F16?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/10/15 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>:
>> What's the chance of getting x264 updated in F16? The current version
>> (116) is too old for MythTV 0.26 and I'd like to keep the same version
>> across all releases. I only need >=118 but the same version as is
>> available in EL-6 would be great.
>
> What is the need of newer ABI ? is it because of ffmpeg built within
> mythtv ? or mythtv code that dropped older x264 API ?

Because MythTV 0.26 requires x264 >=118 and F16 is still on 116. EL6
is not a problem because it's already on version 120.


> I understand that mythtv has a Network protocol that would requires
> several component to be at the same version. But why users are just
> upgrading to the new mythtv in F-17 instead ? This will also lead to a
> problem when EL-6 mythtv built will miss one or another dependency ?
> When to stop the updates there ?

People often don't upgrade their MythTV boxes once they're setup. For
instance, I'm still running F14 on mine, although I plan on changing
to CentOS 6 when I have time.

Richard