libx264 update for F16?

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2012/10/22 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>:
> 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.
OK, then there is no point to update mythtv in F-16 either then.

Nicolas (kwizart)