[ATrpms-users] Problems updating faac - conflict with libmp4v2

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:15:49PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:18:53AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > On 1/2/07, Javier Perez <pepebuho at pananet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >Hi, I am having a conflict with the version of libmp4v2 that faac needs
> > >and the one that I have installed.
> > >Could you pls look into this, it seems more like a naming problem to
> > >coordinate between ATrpms and RF.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have been using faac and faad2 from freshrpms because of vlc,
> > which I compile myself
> > (Dries' packages should be similar, I guess).
> > 
> > However, Matthias said he is willing to pass libmp4v2 to extras,
> > so he removed those libs from faad2. Also,
> > /usr/lib/libmp4v2.so, needed by mythtv, was no longer in his faac package.
> 
> It's libmp4ff. This is an old issue which started with livna and now
> seems to have swapped over to freshrpms. See also
> http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=832#c19 where I tried to
> sync with livna and had mythtv broken.
> 
> > The upgrade to version 2.5 broke ffmpeg, transcode and cinelerra
> > from freshrpms.  I have reported those problems in freshrpms lists,
> > but did not check if he fixed it I think he only updated ffmpeg for
> > the new versions, which fixed transcode.  Cinelerra has to be
> > recreated yet.
> > 
> > Therefore, I start using faac and faad2 from ATrpms, and kept ffmpeg
> > (15/12/2006) from freshrpms.
> > 
> > It would be very nice if those packages were compatible again.
> 
> Please ask Matthias to resurrect libmp4ff otherwise mythtv will
> neither build, nor run.

And I forgot to mention: There is no such thing as an upstream
"libmp4v2" - it was artificially created by someone for patent issues
and AFAIK was abandoned. E.g. there is no upstream backup for keeping
a libmp4v2 self-standing library.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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