Hi, I'm the FFmpeg and x264 package maintainer in RPMFusion. On Thursday, 27 October 2011 at 17:37, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 27.10.2011 17:17, schrieb Leinhos, Henry A CIV NUWC NWPT: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering if it is possible to install the 0.7 version of ffmpeg > > on Fedora 14 instead of the 0.6 branch? There are a couple security > > issues that have come up with ffmpeg and I can’t tell if the 0.6.3 > > version has any of the fixes backported.
Possible? Yes, but it requires bumping x264 version quite a bit. > we are patching x264-sources to provide so.102 and ffmpeg to require only > x264.so.102 > and rebuilding both packages as rpm based on the rpmfusion-scr.rpm with a lot > of internal optimizings (cpu-flags, configure-params...) > > this is needed because many applications are depeding on the so-versions and > sloud be only done knowing about the risk that something breaks and maybe have > to be rebuilt too I don't know who is this "we" that you speak of, but certainly not RPMFusion. I can assure you that neither x264 nor FFmpeg are patched in this way in RPMFusion packages. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations"
