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

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Tim,

On Sunday 25 May 2014 22:29:14 Tim Orling wrote:
> 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=b315042c8ce984bec431c5965120853
> a843cbfa5
> 
> I'll see if I can get http://git.videolan.org/?p=libpostproc.git to play
> nice.

Maybe you already saw it, but we do have a libpostproc recipe in meta-oe...

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre