On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, April 02, 2011 07:02:54 AM Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
>> On 3/31/11 9:37 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
>> > Ok two versioned virtuals (0.5 0.6) are now in the tree if people need
>> > to specify the version.
>>
>> Thank you, but it's still not enough for chromium. The virtual uses
>>
>> >=ffmpeg-0.6, and chromium is known to be broken with <ffmpeg-0.6_p25767.
>>
>> We need to require >=ffmpeg-0.6_p25767, not just 0.6.
>>
>> By the way, I still didn't have time to test with libav, but it seems
>> that it's expected to be compatible.
>
>
> iirc, this dep in chromium is due to the need for libavcore, but this lib has
> been merged back to libavutil in latest snapshots (and thus chromium fails to
> build); if chromium goes back to look for the functions in libavutil, you may
> have chances to be compatible with 0.6
>
I did some testing for this; the results are not ideal. See bug 361665 [1].
Basically, Chromium needs an ffmpeg (or libav) version which includes
the function introduced by the following commit. ffmpeg-0.6 and
libav-0.6.2 don't work.
commit 6f84cd127947394e53a6621e9ed077517df5a6d2
Author: Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-l...@poste.it>
Date: Tue Nov 2 22:20:49 2010 +0000
Add av_get_bits_per_sample_fmt() to libavcore/samplefmt.h and
deprecate av_get_bits_per_sample_format().
Originally committed as revision 25654 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361665
