[ATrpms-users] Q: ffmpeg versions

[linux.il]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 19:58 +0200, linux.il wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:47 +0200, linux.il wrote:
>> >> I'm looking for recent ffmpeg for CENTOS5.  I  downloaded and
>> >> installed the latest ffmpeg-0.6-36_git20101002.el5, but it provides
>> >> only 25305.  How frequently ATRPMS provides new revisions? For
>> >> example, is there any chance to see revision >= 25512 soon?
>> >
>> > Sure, if someone asks as nicely as you do. :)
>> >
>> > BTW what is special about >= 25512?
>> > --
>>
>> Thank you for your prompt answer. And yes, I'll ask nicely :-)
>> As for magic 25512: we have a few clips which  our current ffmpeg
>> (some revision  from Apr, 2009) fails to render. After some research
>> [on MS Windows] we discovered  that rev 25512 knows to render these
>> clips.
>
> OK, new ffmpeg builds are up.
>
>> OTOH, I noticed just now, that you stopped to build RPMs for RHEL4,
>> and we're still runnning it. So it seems that I'll need to build
>> ffmpeg by myself anyway...
>
> I didn't stop, ffmpeg did. ;)
>
> ffmpeg >= 0.6 wouldn't build for RHEL4 anymore, there is even an issue
> raised at ffmpeg, but it won't be fixed. You need to upgrade make for
> building on RHEL4. As this doesn't create any problems I upgraded make
> on my buildsystems and there comes ffmpeg 0.6 for RHEL4 and clones! :)
> (0.5.x for RHEL4 was always available, but probably not working for your
> clips)

Thank you again.
In fact, I  already built recent  ffmpeg  for RHEL4 [yes, I upgraded
make to 3.81].