[x264-devel] x264: 10 bit builds

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com> wrote:
> On Ter, 2012-11-20 at 23:48 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com> wrote:
>> > On Ter, 2012-11-20 at 20:38 +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
>> >> Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXI, Sérgio Basto a écrit :
>> >> > Hi, I'm one of the maintainers of x264 on rpmfusion.org
>> >> >
>> >> > so for next release of Fedora we have:
>> >> > /usr/lib64/libx264.so.125
>> >> > /usr/lib64/libx26410b.so.125
>> >>
>> >> That makes selecting the version to use with LD_LIBRARY_PATH impossible. Is
>> >> it on purpose?
>> >>
>> >
>> > You may choose use -llibx264 or -llibx26410b though
>>
>> Please have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667573
>>
>> i did not upload that change to the debian package due to the freeze
>> yet, but do you see any problems with this approach? Ideally the
>> situation would be consistent in both Fedora & Debian. What do you
>> think?
>
> Hi, I have rejoin to this mailing list to ask other thing, when I read
> this messages about "x264: 10 bit builds", I though that should share
> our work, on this matter.
> On this link https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2227#c0
> you have the RFE
> "The next vlc will expect an usual x264 to provides 8bit and a special
> x26410b to provides 10bit encoding. "
>
> So I think, for now, just (next) VLC need 10bit and expect x26410b ...

As soon as VLC starts to expect this, I'm happy to install a
"compatibility" symlink to the 10bit build in the library package that
covers this.

> So I prefer our approach, which not depend on LD_LIBRARY_PATH but just
> in the name of so, without conflicts.
> I will read in more detail the Debian bug report, when I have free
> time ...

Well, I think the Debian approach is more flexible as it does not
require changes in the applications nor recompilation. But YMMV, of
course.

Best,
Reinhard

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regards,
    Reinhard