JavaFX 8 Fedora 21 and ffmpeg

[Paul Howarth]

Hi all,

I'm curious to see if anyone has had any luck with JavaFX (as bundled 
with Oracle's JDK 8) on Fedora 21?

It requires libav{codec,format}.so.53, which were provided by ffmpeg in 
F-20 but the much newer version in F-21 has only the 
libav{codec,format}.so.56 libraries.

I see that there's an ffmpeg-compat package, but that provides 
libav{codec,format}.so.52.

Any suggestions for the best way forward to resolve this issue?

Paul.