[OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] libav (9.13): remove DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

[Tim Orling]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 07:36:42PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Paul Eggleton
> > <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >> Use PREFERRED_VERSION_libav in your distro definition instead.
> > >
> > > Why? PREFERRED_VERSION_libav will override this in any case...
> >
> > I would rather ask why not ? we are pinning to older version is there
> > a reason for that ?
>
> Current openal-soft, gst-ffmpeg and xbmc fail with libav-9, mplayer2
> fails with old libav-8, we need someone to work on making them
> compatible with the same version of libav (preferably newer one - 9 or
> 10) and then we should switch.
>
> The problem--at least for gst-ffmpeg and xbmc--is that libav-9 drops
libpostproc.
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=b315042c8ce984bec431c5965120853a843cbfa5

I'll see if I can get http://git.videolan.org/?p=libpostproc.git to play
nice.

Otherwise we could build the internal versions of ffmpeg in gst-ffmpeg and
xbmc, but that seems dumb and wasteful.

--Tim
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