On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 11:05 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 9:54 AM Sérgio Basto <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > that is our problem why mythtv 29 we can enable libvpx and in 30, > > 31 > > don't ? > > MythTV 31 (well it's embedded FFmpeg > variant) requires a newer version of libvpx > than EL7 ships with. Individuals can > choose to build/use a later libvpx for > their own use (with some specific > caveats about potentially breaking some > other things), but that is not something > that can be done by RPMFusion directly. > And a possible alternative of one of > the RPMFusion MythTV packagers > doing the development and creating > a large patch to create an entirely new > embedded libvpx instantiation inside > the MythTV package itself is something > no one seems likely to even consider. > > As Richard mentioned early in this > thread, EL7 libraries and functions, > while still working well for apps > developed in the same time-frame > of EL7 release of 6 years ago, is > simply too old for much modern > software. > > One should consider moving to > CentOS 8, or Fedora, or, perhaps, > creating container images or VM > instances of a more recent OS if > one needs to continue to run a > base OS of EL7 for other reasons.
BTW Anyone built mythTV on EL8 ? I stopped on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1756170 and since someone mention that we need update kernels, is not about libcec ? "people should be using the new kernel based CEC support" Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ rpmfusion-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
