[Slackbuilds-users] Kodi and ffmpeg

[Larry Hajali]

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:41 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/04/2018 06:54 AM, Daniel Stein wrote:
> > Doesn't the Kodi build use it's own ffmpeg for the build?
> >
> > On Feb 3, 2018 10:34 PM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeowulf at gmail.com
> > <mailto:kingbeowulf at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     The kodi Slackbuild states:
> >
> >     # The version of ffmpeg on SBo is too old to compile kodi
> >
> >     and provides ffmpeg-3.1.11 however SBo provides ffmpeg-3.2.4
> >
> >     -Ed
> >
>
> Maybe I was too terse: the version of ffmpeg supported by the kodi
> script maintainer is older than the one provided by the script to
> compile kodi.  The comment in the build script is now misleading.  It is
> NOT that SBo ffmpeg is too old, rather that kodi devs REQUIRE a
> ffmpeg-3.1.x as they have patched it for kodi "krypton"
>
> Yes, the message is the README is old and I haven't updated/removed it.
The main thing is that I don't really support that option and I haven't
tried building Kodi with SBo ffmpeg in the build script even though it is
still there.  The maintainers of Kodi highly recommend their version of
ffmpeg.

I can test it if it works but not sure if I want to support that option.

Thanks,
--Larry


> Whether ffmpeg upstream is aware of these patches, I'm too tired to
> research...
>
> -Ed
>
>
>
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