ffmpeg for EL7

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2016-08-24 18:55 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>:
> On 08/23/2016 12:15 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>> 2016-08-23 20:06 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>:
>>> Does anyone here have any ffmpeg knowledge that would give a reason for
>>> preferring anything other than the current ffmpeg 3.1.1 for EL7?  Does ffmpeg
>>> have a long-term-support branch?
>> There is issue with stable vlc-2.2x which I plan to have in el7, also
>> the current kodi 0.16 version doesn't cope well with ffmpeg 3.1x
>> I think it's easier to have ffmpeg 3.0x in el7, but then I don't know
>> other dependencies that might have issue.
>
> Given the pain of later updates, it might be worth waiting a bit for vlc 3.0
> and kodi 0.17 to land (or get sufficiently stable).

I don't expect vlc-3 in EL7 as a first step. VLC 2.2x is there and
more relevant for long term support, and specially since EL8 shoudn't
be that far away for vlc-3x.
Based on that ffmpeg-2.8x seems a more relevant ABI to start with EL7.
And later we can still update the whole multimedia stack with
ffmpeg-3.1+ vlc3+ koji17 then introduce a fmpeg-2.8x as ffmpeg-compat
to keep "stable ABI"

This has always been a problem to build latest ffmpeg in stable
release without to break ABI. we should probably have a "SCL build of
ffmpeg" for those that will only rely on the ffmpeg binaries or fast
moving projects using the ffmpeg libraries.

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Nicolas (kwizart)