[packman] How to upgrade XBMC to Kodi

[Sagi Ben-Akiva]

I double checked this and new ffmpeg libraries *are* statically linked in
kodi.bin executable.

Sagi.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:37 AM, LB <aloisio at gmx.com> wrote:

> Saturday, December 27, 2014 "Sagi Ben-Akiva" wrote:
>
> > Yes there is , taken from http://kodi.tv/kodi-14-0-helix-unwinds/ :
> > "To begin, Kodi has been updated to use FFmpeg 2.4.4. For users, this
> means
> > Kodi will now be capable of playing back h.265 (also known as HEVC) and
> VP9
> > video codecs. The use of HEVC and VP9 could result in dramatically
> smaller
> > video files sizes with exactly the same level of quality. A 40 GB file
> > could be compressed to 20 GB. Users with particularly large libraries or
> > interest in 4K video may be especially likely to appreciate this update.
> > Software support for the VP9 video codec is also included."
>
> > While in packman repo ffmpeg is at version 2.3.3
> >
> https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/show/Essentials/ffmpeg[https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/show/Essentials/ffmpeg]
>
> And it's bound to remain at that version until vlc 2.2 is released. Vlc
> 2.1.5 won't build with anything newer than 2.3.x and that's a show-stopper.
>
> Perhaps the new ffmpeg libraries could be statically linked to kodi?
>
> Or perhaps someone has a bright idea to make ffmpeg 2.4/2.5 coexist as
> ffmpeg_current without having the sonames clash?
>
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