gstreamer-plugins-bad incompatibility with latest x264 from ATrpms

[Andre Costa]

Hi Matthias, thks for your reply. Comments below.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:41, Matthias Saou <
thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net> wrote:

> Andre Costa wrote :
>
> > I have been using Freshrpms "forever" already (thks Matthias! =)), but
> > recently enabled ATrpms in order to upgrade mplayerplug-in to a more
> recent
> > version in order to try to be able to view trailers from Apple movie
> > trailers site once again. mplayerplug-in upgrade went by just fine[*],
> but
> > ATrpms contains a more recent version of x264 that breaks
> > gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.7-2.fc9, which depends on
> > x264-0.0.0-0.6.20080510.fc9 from Freshrpms.
> >
> > What's the recommended solution for this situation? Can Freshrpms and
> ATrpms
> > be mixed at all?
>
> Very typical. x264, just like ffmpeg and a few others, are software
> which constantly evolves, with the library soname bumping all the time,
> so it's really hard for everyone to provide the same version, as the
> very latest always has something cool or useful, but implies having to
> make a whole bunch of rebuilds, possibly fixing bugs but introducing
> new ones.
>
> Short answer : Mixing repos has never been easy... your current
> solution is to wait for a version of mplayerplug-in that works
> anyway ;-) And once you get that, either switch to ATrpms, or notify me
> so that the freshrpms package also gets updated.


Thks for the straightforward answer. It's a pity Freshrpms (my 3rd party
repo of choice) and ATrpms can't mix, but I understand your POV and the
problems involved, and I know it's not really your or Axel's fault. I've
raised this issue on ATrpms ML as well, and Axel made some comments there,
maybe it would be worth a look:

http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/2008-August/009660.html

Anyway, I can confirm mplayerplug-in 3.55 (which ATrpms is already
providing) fixes the issue with Apple trailers site.

Regards,

Andre
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