Subject: Re: bug#18814: ffmpeg 2.4.2 upgrade broke vlc

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:08:33 -0400

Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> writes:

> Jason Self <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> commit 7947a05439cc26d93bd93300f38d216dbb93c76d
>> Author: Jason Self <[email-masked]>
>> Date:   Mon Oct 20 12:32:42 2014 -0700
>>
>>     gnu: ffmpeg: Update to 2.4.2.
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/video.scm (ffmpeg): Update to version 2.4.2.
>
> This broke the vlc build with the following error:
>
>   checking for AVCODEC... yes
>   configure: error: libavcodec versions 56 and later are not supported yet.

I fixed this by adding ffmpeg-2.2 and using it for vlc, in commit
f9e687b51aafaa160b3c361c801ec5823dbef2f0.  I'm closing this bug now.

      Mark