[mythtv] FFmpeg 8.0 available for testing

[David Engel]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 12:21:13PM -0500, David Hampton via mythtv-dev wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-12-12 at 23:01 -0500, Scott Theisen wrote:
> > I have applied the changes to FFmpeg from the release/8.0 branch,
> > available for testing at https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/1223.
> > 
> > It was fairly straightforward, with only a few minor merge conflicts
> > in FFmpeg due to our modifications.
> > 
> > I did not have any problems with any of my samples, but more testing
> > is always welcome.
> 
> I have played sample mpeg2, mpeg4, h264, h265, and av1 videos. I've
> also done a bunch of cut list editing on mostly mpeg2 files, and on one
> or two h264 files.  I haven't had any problems.
> 
> Has anyone else tried FFmpeg 8.0?
> 
> Should I go ahead and commit these changes?

No objection here.  Pick a time, annoucne it and go for it.

David
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