Re: gst-ffmpeg is broken since the libav-9 introduction

[Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

On 09-03-15 16:24, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 6 March 2015 at 17:51, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl
> <mailto:mike.looijmans@topic.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Commit 4ceff7d0a1f28eb1ce5d288111015b__ff8d5e9a7e "libav: drop older
>     0.8.* and use libav-9 by default" removed libav 0.8 in favor of the
>     "9" edition. However, after compiling this for a MIPS box, the
>     gst-ffmpeg plugin now refuses to load and displays the following at
>     runtime:
>
>
> Hm, bad testing, sorry.  This would be why gstreamer-libav 1.0 defaults
> to using it's own internal copy of libav then. :/

There's actually a page long rant that displays on screen if you link 
externally, like we do...

> I see that gstreamer-ffmpeg_0.10 defaults to using the internal libav,
> and as the API clearly changed we need to do that.  Can you verify that
> removing external-libav from the PACKAGECONFIG fixes this problem?

Tried that, it required a small patch to the configure.ac script to make 
it past the configure stage:

Index: gst-ffmpeg-0.10.13/configure.ac
===================================================================
--- gst-ffmpeg-0.10.13.orig/configure.ac
+++ gst-ffmpeg-0.10.13/configure.ac
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ else
       if test -z "$srcdir" -o "$srcdir" = .; then
         confcmd=./configure
       else
-       confcmd="$origdir"/"$ac_top_srcdir"/gst-libs/ext/libav/configure
+       confcmd="$ac_top_srcdir"/gst-libs/ext/libav/configure
       fi

       AS_MKDIR_P(["$ac_top_build_prefix"gst-libs/ext/libav])


Then it at least gets a bit further, but then you get bombed by a load 
of missing includes/headers/classes/andwhatnots during compile.

I guess some of the 50 or so patches are intented to make it work with 
the external library, and hence break building against the included one.

-- 
Mike Looijmans