[mythtv-users] Status of ffmpeg 4.4.1

[James Abernathy]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 11:16 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 9:48 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:37 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 11/11/21 9:02 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
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>>> I'm curious about this in light of my mythtv-frontend PC in my garage.
>>> I'm rebuilding it weekly as a piece of hardware that isn't critical and I
>>> can test anything on it prior to using it on something important.
>>>
>>> I currently have Archlinux on it and it's version of ffmepg is 4.4.1.
>>> The AUR package for mythtv that tracks v31 rebuilds mythtv from the github
>>> source.
>>>
>>> Is that going to use ffmpeg 4.4.1 with mythtv fixes/31 and screw up? Not
>>> critical, but I use Arch to teach me about stuff that most distros hide
>>> from you.
>>>
>>> Jim A
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>>> MythTV has its own internal copy of ffmpeg independent of the one
>>> installed in Linux, so that will not affect MythTV v31.
>>>
>>> While on the subject, I have now fixed the audio problem you reported,
>>> caused by the upconvert setting, so if you want to rebuild and retest the
>>> devel/ffmpeg-resync branch you should no longer see that error.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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>> Thanks for the explanation. That explains why the AUR packager for mythtv
>> on Archlinux built cleaning and is tracking v31.
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>> I'll checkout the devel/ffmpeg branch again to test.
>>
>> Jim A
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> Just tested the upconvert stereo to 5.1 and it works fine with the latest
> build
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> JIm A
>

I just found out that the upconvert stereo to 5.1 does not work on Master.
I switched my test system back from the ffmpeg-resync to master and that's
one of the things I just found out.

Jim A
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