On Tue, Sep 16 2025 at 18:26:32 +02:00:00, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com> wrote:

This needs more detail. What else would be providing virtual/ffmpeg, other than ffmpeg itself? Why the justification is talking about 'different versions', and not different providers?

Because it's been a while, I found it surprisingly difficult to get to the point ;)

I think I tried it as you recommended, and I also think that I only needed virtual/kodi at the time.

The 'idea' of virtual/ffmpeg is introduced in meta-raspberrypi because it provides rpidistro-ffmpeg,

and the build system therefore expects me to set a PREFERRED_PROVIDER for it.