[vlc-devel] [regression] compile breakage from avcodec patches

[jpd at m2x.nl]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 12:46, Laurent Aimar wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009, jpd at m2x.nl wrote:
>> On a recently (yesterday) updated fedora 10 with the stock ffmpeg
>> installed:
>>   ffmpeg-devel.i386                 0.4.9-0.55.20080908.fc10
>>   ffmpeg-libs.i386                  0.4.9-0.55.20080908.fc10
>>
>> the following two commits need to be reverted to compile. Note that a
>
>  Could you give me the LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT value ? I will then
> add the needed compilation checks.

#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR 51
#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR 71
#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO  0

So that seems to be 3360512 or, put another way, 0x334700.


>  However, note that this avcodec version will not allow to have correct
> channels order for 5.1/7.1 AAC/AC3/EAC3/DTS/MLP when it is used by VLC.

That would probably beat having it not compile at all, though a release
note may be in order. Otherwise, proper configure tests are called for.