[arch-dev-public] ffmpeg and x264 update/rebuild in testing

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 19:04:25 EDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just put an updated ffmpeg and x264 in testing. I've updated
> ffmpeg to the latest stable version (0.5) that was released recently
> and x264 was updated to the latest snapshot. The x264 library has a
> soname bump so the following packages have been rebuilt:
>
> mplayer
> avidemux
> gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
> vlc
> opal
>
> Because the ffmpeg version scheme change (20090217 -> 0.5) was causing
> problem on pacman update, I also had to rebuild the following packages
> to change their ffmpeg versioned dependency:
>
> cmus
> k3b
> motion
> nuvexport
> sox
> transcode
> xine-lib
>
> Some notes:
>
> - nuvexport was out-of-date so I updated it.
> - Concerning mplayer, I haven't done any changes related to the GUI.
> However,  I changed the  libcaca makedepends to a depends.
>
> Please test and report any problems.
>

No problems have been reported so far. I'll move them to extra this
week-end so you still have time to test and report issues.


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