Bug#803868: vlc: FTBFS with FFmpeg 2.9

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi,

On 08.11.2015 23:13, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> 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

This commit looks quite odd. I don't think it does anything useful.

>> faa7bd357b1f9e07a6ffbc451a188773fad7a275
>> 7db8b37716c044f93547d733d7f1bb313ed5226b
>> 3d2850fe728424b3318e00c7be13ddba1cb3c544
>> dbad0d2747e76067808a227d113d747a87a70169
>> d185cfaad5353822849723a31ac25d65d8d23d00
>> 85b5b4e05f944ad98859ab3fb1c0ddf36ac887bc
>>
>> J-B, are these all the necessary commits? Could they be applied to 2.2 branch?

The master branch still uses the deprecated FF_MAX_B_FRAMES.
(That's not going to vanish with FFmpeg 2.9, though.)

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

Can you expand on what runtime issues you mean?
These might also be relevant for other packages.

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

Is there an estimated release date for VLC 3.0?

Best regards,
Andreas