Hi Michael! On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 15:36 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > Thanks to sickness and leave and other interruptions I didn't get a > whole lot done in my shift, and I didn't do a very good job of > recording the things I did do I'm afraid.
My condolances, I hope you feel better soon! > # ffmpeg 5 > > I spent a while looking at the ongoing ffmpeg 5 transition and it's a > huge mess. ffmpeg itself has now migrated but there are a pretty > large set of packages on NBS depending on the old ffmpeg libraries. > Dan did a great job of sorting out all the easy and easy-ish stuff > here but most (all?) of the remaining packages seem to require at > best moving to much newer upstreams than are present in the archive > or at worse extensive upstream work (some packages may be able to be > built without ffpmeg support until upstream catches up, which > degrades functionality but might be worth doing as a stop gap). I > feel like at this point it is not really something that is suitable > forĀ +1 maintenance work. Unless someone who already has experience > with ffmpeg can devote an entire shift to it, I'm not sure what our > plan should be. Agreed, this is a mess. I was assisting with Steve on the digiKam 7.7.0 issue that is related to this (complete FTBFS due to inability to build with libavcodec59) and he thought of porting it. I investigated upstream and have been met with the developers telling me that they will not support ffmpeg 5 on digiKam 7.7.x, but will on 8.x.x. Moreover, I cannot find any sign of the source code for 8.x, but they've somehow released some pre-alpha appimages (???!). At any rate, I managed to get some builds in my PPA without the video playback support by removing the '-DENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER=ON' line from the debian/rules file. Good news: it builds. Bad news: No video player. I've only been hesitating to upload this because Steve had mentioned perhaps porting the failing portion to ffmpeg 5 compatibility, so I was waiting to hear back from him to see how he wanted to proceed, but I might just upload it and see if he wants to port it later. This is of interest to me because digiKam is a major part of Ubuntu Studio as its premiere photo cataloguing application, in addition to the multitude of other benefits it provides. -- Erich Eickmeyer Project Leader, Ubuntu Studio Member, Ubuntu Community Council Ubuntu MOTU -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel