Bug#803868: vlc: FTBFS with FFmpeg 2.9

Sun Nov 8 22:13:58 UTC 2015

On 08 Nov, Sebastian Ramacher wrote :
> Thanks for the patch. But this is already fixed for 3.0 and I'd rather take the
> upstream fix to keep the diff minimal. The relevant commits seem to be:
> 
> 5707f03f17980d294cda103892d80d76458dae05
> 5f91febe28de339a41b450054f9e6d240d23a8a8
> cdf35ce011abed346d898da1dcd0bae6bebd14ef
> faa7bd357b1f9e07a6ffbc451a188773fad7a275
> 7db8b37716c044f93547d733d7f1bb313ed5226b
> 3d2850fe728424b3318e00c7be13ddba1cb3c544
> dbad0d2747e76067808a227d113d747a87a70169
> d185cfaad5353822849723a31ac25d65d8d23d00
> 85b5b4e05f944ad98859ab3fb1c0ddf36ac887bc
> 
> J-B, are these all the necessary commits? Could they be applied to 2.2 branch?

No, there are more of those, IIRC, and some are runtime issues and it's difficult
to plug correctly those in 2.2 branch.

So, if you want a recent ffmpeg with VLC, you need 3.0.

With my kindest regards,

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