[Slackbuilds-users] FFmpeg update

[John Vogel]

On Sun, 24 May 2015 08:58:41 +0700
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

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> > I am running ffmpeg 2.6.2, and tried and compile kodi 14.2 with
> > that release; it does not compile, kodi seems to rely on an ffmpeg 
> > functions (as far as I understood for dvd support) which is no 
> > longer available in recent versions. So, kodi has to be compiled 
> > with the version of ffmpeg it contains, which is older. Maybe the 
> > upcoming kodi 15 will avoid that issue, I have not tried yet.
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> 
> I just built kodi 14.2 and it is working fine
> 
> kodi:
>   MD5SUM check for 14.2-Helix.tar.gz ... OK
>   MD5SUM check for Helix_rc3.tar.gz ... OK
>   MD5SUM check for 2.4.6-Helix.tar.gz ... OK
>   Building package kodi-14.2-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz ... OK
>   Installing package kodi-14.2-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz ... OK
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> AFAIK, kodi is built using ffmpeg that is defined in the DOWNLOAD, but
> if you pass FFMPEG=yes, then it failed building it
> 
> DVDDemuxFFmpeg.cpp: In member function 'virtual void
> CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Flush()':
> DVDDemuxFFmpeg.cpp:544:41: error: 'av_read_frame_flush' was not
> declared in this scope
>      av_read_frame_flush(m_pFormatContext);
>                                          ^
> make[1]: *** [DVDDemuxFFmpeg.o] Error 1
> make: *** [xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDDemuxers/DVDDemuxers.a] Error 2
> 
> 

Hi Willy,

Thanks for checking that. I think that kodi is a non-issue here.
kodi uses of it's own patched fork of ffmpeg, which makes building
kodi with mainstream ffmpeg either impossible or overly problematic.

Cheers,
John