[Slackbuilds-users] What's with x265?

[B. Watson]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Luveh Keraph wrote:

> In the 21st September update x265 was upgraded to version 4.0. In the 28th September update it has been downgraded to version 3.6.
> Is there a problem with x265 version 4.0?

Was that you asking on IRC?

If not... apparently mpv has problems with x265 4.0. But, don't know
the details.

It'd be nice if there was a comment in the script explaining *why* it
was downgraded. All we've got is the git log:

commit 4de0d333affc2d42e50f40a4d0a1cda5db92b63c
Author: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 23 07:41:00 2024 +0700

     multimedia/x265: Updated for version 3.6.

     This reverts commit 585c6dda5e541c359e4cc8e689b910d348295c4e.

     Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>

commit 585c6dda5e541c359e4cc8e689b910d348295c4e
Author: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>
Date:   Sun Sep 15 15:52:45 2024 +0700

     multimedia/x265: Updated for version 4.0.

     Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org>

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to clone the repo,
do a 'git checkout 585c6dda' (to get the x265 4.0 build). Build
x265, install it, then build/install mpv's deps, then mpv itself.

If it fails to compile, post the build log here.

If it does compile, try using mpv to play a file encoded with the
H.265 HEVC codec, and see if it plays correctly.

Alternatively, if you can't/won't do the work, you could ask Chris
Willing, maintainer of mpv, to take a look at it.

Or you could wait 3 or 4 days, and I'll have time to mess with it
myself. Probably. If I remember to. mpv and x265 aren't my builds, I'm
just the 'repo fixer-upper' whenever I can be.