[Slackbuilds-users] FFmpeg update

[Christoph Willing]

On 02/06/15 21:00, David Spencer wrote:
>> Any chance we could backport the ffmpeg fixes to 2.1.x?
>
> "Challenge accepted" :D
> It looked really difficult two nights ago, but I've had coffee since then...
>

There may be an easier way.

I have just compiled vlc-2.1.6 with ffmpeg-2.6.3 by modifying vlc's 
configure.ac and running 'autoreconf -f' prior to runing configure etc. 
The patch with the modification is attached if anyone would like to test 
it. It just changes the disallowed .so version from 56 to 57 so that the 
libavcodec.so.56.26.100 from ffmpeg-2.6.3 is not rejected. After the 
patch & autoreconf, configuration and compilation both proceed normally 
- quite a few warnings about use of deprecated functions but no errors 
(also no bad noises about cairo/librsvg, libdvdread or taglib, as was 
the case with vlc-2.2.1).

So far I've tested playback only on a single video but it played fine in 
the VM I was testing in. I can do some more testing tomorrow morning but 
I think this patch is doing the job OK.

chris



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--- configure.ac.orig	2015-02-27 06:25:58.000000000 +1000
+++ configure.ac	2015-06-02 23:10:53.544894508 +1000
@@ -2243,8 +2243,8 @@
 [  --enable-avcodec        libavcodec codec (default enabled)])
 AS_IF([test "${enable_avcodec}" != "no"], [
   PKG_CHECK_MODULES(AVCODEC,[libavcodec >= 53.34.0 libavutil >= 51.22.0], [
-    PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([libavcodec < 56],, [
-      AC_MSG_ERROR([libavcodec versions 56 and later are not supported yet.])
+    PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([libavcodec < 57],, [
+      AC_MSG_ERROR([libavcodec versions 57 and later are not supported yet.])
     ])
     VLC_SAVE_FLAGS
     CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} ${AVCODEC_CFLAGS}"