upcoming ffmpeg transition

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Andrey,

On 26.01.2016 20:53, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> recently I noticed a warning from vlc developers regarding the upcoming
> FFmpeg 2.9 release [1]. Are you already aware of it?

Yes, we're aware of that, but thanks for notifying us anyway.
This will be fixed upstream in FFmpeg shortly.

> I'm wondering, whether mplayer and mpv are also affected.

No, they use hwaccels differently (arguably in a better way) than VLC.

> Could this delay the transition to FFmpeg 2.9 until the issue will be
> resolved or it is already done?

This won't delay the transition to the next FFmpeg version, which
by the way will probably be called 3.0.

On the other hand there are still many packages in the archive
incompatible with the new FFmpeg version [1], despite patches being
available since three months. That might delay the transition.
(Though I intend to file removal bugs for some of those unmaintained
leaf packages.)

Best regards,
Andreas


1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-multimedia-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=ffmpeg2.9