From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 16:40:34 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH/RFC] package/kodi: bump to version 17.0-Krypton In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20160702164034.76b8530e@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, First of all, thanks for this status report! Please try to Cc me on such e-mails in the future. On Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:30:14 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote: > Kodi 17.0-alpha2 was released two days ago. On github you will find my > continuous updates, now including a package for the confluence skin with > support to remove unwanted skins, like the default estuary/estouchy > skins, from the buildroot image. > > From my kodi17 branch I sent two patch series to the buildroot > mailinglist for inclusion to prepare the Kodi 17 bump: > > The first series updates the Kodi package in preparation for the bump: > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/640793/ > [v2,1/4] package/kodi: re-structure dependencies > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/640796/ > [v2,2/4] package/kodi: Add suboption to control MySQL support I made a comment on this one, asking why we add a sub-option instead of using an implicit, not sure I got a reply. > The second series provides support for ffmpeg 3, parts of it were > committed today to buildroot, the remaining patches are > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/643482/ > [v4,2/7] package/ffmpeg: bump to version 3.1.1 > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/643480/ > [v4,4/7] package/ffmpeg: default to --cpu=generic for MIPS architecture > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/643477/ > [v4,5/7] package/ffmpeg: re-enable for mips64r2 and mips64r6 > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/643479/ > [v4,6/7] package/vlc: bump version to git master (to be released as 3.0) > > The main problem with this patch series is the fact that vlc did not > release version 3.0 yet, I could not find publicly available informations > about a release date. Is ffmpeg 3.x mandatory for Kodi 17 ? > On my personal setup I switched to Kodi 17 two weeks ago with positive > results, for details read this blog posting: > https://kodi.tv/10-days-till-first-v17-krypton-alpha-release/ Cool! It's really very useful to have a contributor like you very active on keeping our Kodi support up to date! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com