[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/18] package/ffmpeg: bump version to 6.1.1

[Yann E. MORIN]

Bernd, All,

On 2024-04-07 12:42 +0200, Bernd Kuhls spake thusly:
> Am Sun, 7 Apr 2024 11:25:06 +0200 schrieb Yann E. MORIN:
> > For aubio, it was only an optional dependency, so that loses an optional
> > feature. While not ideal, this is not breaking the package, but we have
> > no way to tell the user when they update that aubio no longer uses
> > ffmpeg. Unless there is an aubio version bump that supports newer
> > ffmpeg?
> v2 of the patch series will include a bump for aubio to support ffmpeg 6.x

ACK, good.

> > For opencv3 and opencv4, this is also optional, and there are Kconfig
> > options we'd move to legacy, that will tell the user opencv3/4 no longer
> > uses ffmpeg. And then we can simplify the ffmpeg.mk itself about its own
> > dependency on opencv3.
> Correct.

Sure, but would it be possible to update openv3 (unlikely) and opencv4
to versions that support newer ffmpeg?

> > Which leaves us with omxplayer, for which libavresample is a mandatory
> > dependency. Is there an upstream changin in omxplayer that makes
> > libavresample optional? If not, then we'd have to drop omxplayer before
> > we bump ffmpeg...
> The package was deprecated in 2020 and will be removed in v2 of the patch 
> series.

Good, let's drop it then.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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