On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:21:33 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2024-03-21, William wrote: > > A few days ago I tried reencoding several video files I have laying > > around to save storage, using libsvtav1 through ffmpeg, and then to > > my surprise (and frustration) I realized that ffmpeg distributed by > > GNU/Guix does not include such encoding library. > > > > I checked the issue tracker and found out issues that indeed > > commented on this library missing, strangely enough, an issue with > > a patch was marked as solved on 16 February 2024[0], over a month > > ago, however when I check the source files I notice that the patch > > that includes a flag to enable this library is still not present on > > the latest build of ffmpeg yet[1]. > > It appears to be applied in core-updates as > 9400188b2b57cea2f3efc998a2f3b24769db04b7, but not yet merged into the > master branch. This is probably because it would trigger too many > rebuilds... > > > live well, > vagrant Hello. Could someone explain exactly what the "core-updates" branch is? Can perhaps "core-updates" be added as an extra channel on Guix manually? And how long usually it takes for these patches to make its way from "core-updates" to master? Thanks in advance.
