Hi Erich, >In our packaging we simply had forced it with "DENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER=ON" in our debian/rules file, and removing that enabled it to build in my >PPA. I'm working with one of our more senior Ubuntu developers to see if we should proceed with that route, or if he wants to do a manual patch >to port it over to ffmpeg5 as he has more experience with that than I do.
Thanks to your proposal for porting help to ffmpeg5. In all cases, ffmpeg 5 must be done in 8.x. See below the reasons why: 1/ 7.x use a maintenance branch named qt5-maintenance where no new main features will be add. 2/ 7.x Media Player feature depend of QtAv external dependency. QtAv use ffmpeg API. 3/ QtAv is not maintained since February 2022. 4/ In 8.x we include QtAv in digiKam core and we apply a lots of patch to port Qt6, ffmpeg5, and fix plenty of bugs. 5/ ffmpeg 5 port must be done in QtAV code includes in 8.x, as 85% of the job is already done. The QtAV code in located here in digiKam 8.x (master branch) : https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/tree/master/core/libs/video/qtav Look well the TODO list from the REDAME file. There is an entry in bugzilla where we list the QtAV integration progress and the identified problem with the ffmpeg 5 API : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448681 Look the comment #33. The main problems are AVCodecParameters and AVCodecContext in QtAV code which are not properly ported to ffmpeg 5. The side effect is a quickly freeze of media player when a video is read. We will really appreciate all contributions to finalize the ffmpeg 5 port. Please use the Gitlab Merge Request workflow to contribute to digiKam source code. https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/merge_requests Thanks in advance Gilles Caulier -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to digikam in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1982775 Title: digikam FTBFS against libavcodec59 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/digikam/+bug/1982775/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
