On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/10/15 Richard Shaw <[email protected]>: >> What's the chance of getting x264 updated in F16? The current version >> (116) is too old for MythTV 0.26 and I'd like to keep the same version >> across all releases. I only need >=118 but the same version as is >> available in EL-6 would be great. > > What is the need of newer ABI ? is it because of ffmpeg built within > mythtv ? or mythtv code that dropped older x264 API ?
Because MythTV 0.26 requires x264 >=118 and F16 is still on 116. EL6 is not a problem because it's already on version 120. > I understand that mythtv has a Network protocol that would requires > several component to be at the same version. But why users are just > upgrading to the new mythtv in F-17 instead ? This will also lead to a > problem when EL-6 mythtv built will miss one or another dependency ? > When to stop the updates there ? People often don't upgrade their MythTV boxes once they're setup. For instance, I'm still running F14 on mine, although I plan on changing to CentOS 6 when I have time. Richard
