JavaFX 8 Fedora 21 and ffmpeg

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi, Paul.

On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 15:00, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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?

Do you mean Oracle's binaries?

> 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?

You're welcome to provide another (compat-ffmpeg-010x?) package, but
libav{codec,format}.so.53 comes from FFmpeg-0.10.x, which is no longer
maintained:

FFmpeg 0.10.15 "Freedom"

0.10.15 was released on 2014-08-13. It is the latest stable FFmpeg
release from the 0.10 release branch, which was cut from master on
2012-01-26. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from
ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2012-01-26, libav 0.8.15 as of 2014-08-12.

It includes the following library versions:

libavutil      51. 35.100
libavcodec     53. 61.100
libavformat    53. 32.100
libavdevice    53.  4.100
libavfilter     2. 61.100
libswscale      2.  1.100
libswresample   0.  6.100
libpostproc    52.  0.100

Regards,
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