Re: address@hidden: 02/02: gnu: mpv: Update to 0.28.0.]

[Rutger Helling]

Hi Leo,

You can find the new features at:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES

There are two reasons for me personally why I wanted to update:
1. The mpv developers only support the latest release.
2. The initial Vulkan support, which I've got working (x86_64 only for
now). I can't merge it yet until core-updates is merged though.

I agree having three ffmpeg versions is undesirable. However, looking
at the release notes ("This release needs recent FFmpeg (newer than
3.4) due to major refactoring.") this is hopefully a one-time thing.

When stable ffmpeg is updated we can get rid of the -git version. mpv is
the only one using the -git version and it's been very solid for me, so
I don't foresee problems there. Replacing address@hidden entirely with
this -git version seems too extreme a solution to me.

Hopefully that explains my rationale a bit!

On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:18:32 -0500
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Rutger,
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Rutger Helling <address@hidden>
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> 
> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 04:52:26 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rutger Helling <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: 02/02: gnu: mpv: Update to 0.28.0.
> 
> rhelling pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository guix.
> 
> commit abc5ef5a7f7fecb99ca8213c0962f42cc1a65552
> Author: Rutger Helling <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Dec 27 10:46:26 2017 +0100
> 
>     gnu: mpv: Update to 0.28.0.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/video.scm (mpv): Update to 0.28.0.
>     [inputs]: Change ffmpeg to ffmpeg-git, add wayland-protocols.
> 
> -----
> 
> As a frequent user of mpv, I also noticed that its latest release
> requires this unreleased branch of FFmpeg (it will eventually be
> released as FFmpeg 3.5).
> 
> I wonder, does mpv 0.28.0 bring some new features that make it worth
> it to build three copies of FFmpeg? There was already ffmpeg-2.8 and
> address@hidden (the latest upstream release). And, do we know if this
> copy of FFmpeg is ready to be deployed?
> 
> If I remember correctly, FFmpeg is pretty expensive to build from
> source. But maybe it's no big deal, or the new features are worth it.
> Or maybe we should replace address@hidden with this unreleased
> development branch.

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