ffmpeg for EL7

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 01 September 2016 at 19:21, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 08/31/2016 07:11 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > Orion Poplawski, I'd like have an agreement on how put ffmpeg in epel7.
> > What you say ? may we have one ffmpeg ? , should we have multi ffmpegs
> > ? etc. 
> 
> So would I. But I seem to have offended Nicolas enough that discussion has
> stopped.
> 
> I think that the ffmpegX.Y packages allow for a better transition in the
> future when 2.8 becomes unsupported, as well as allowing packages that need
> 3.1 to use it now.  But it is definitely more complex and there may be other
> gotchas.  However, I do feel that this is the way more and more packages are
> going, especially in EPEL.  For example, with zabbix, we have zabbix20 and
> zabbix22, but no "zabbix".
> 
> If the consensus is to ship 2.8 as ffmpeg now, and then presumably switch to
> 3.X later and ship ffmpeg-compat-2.8 later, that seems workable as well.
> Traditionally compat packages have only shipped runtime libs, but you could
> ship the full thing as well if needed.

+1 to ffmpeg28, ffmpeg31 etc. You just need to watch the ABI changes
carefully and make sure no package ends up depending on both.

Regards,
Dominik
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