[Slackbuilds-users] What's with x265?

[Luveh Keraph]

It wasn't me on IRC, but obviously somebody else has noticed. What bugs me
is that every time that x265 is upgraded a number of other tools (at least
ffmpeg, mplayer, mkvtoolnix) must be rebuilt. Well, at least I have to do
so: otherwise, they can't find the target x265 library. Interestingly, mpv
does not have to be rebuilt - and it still seems to work fine for me, in
that it is able to play everything I throw at it, including material that
uses the H.265 HEVC codec.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 5:11 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
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