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

Tim Orling ticotimo at gmail.com
Tue May 27 14:00:48 UTC 2014


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Paul Eggleton <
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> 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...
>
> :) I found that recipe shortly after I sent the above email. I am working
with that recipe now to see if I can get several multimedia packages to
build with libav-9+. IMHO, gst-ffmpeg-0.10 needs to go away and this will
help.

--Tim
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