Maybe it's time to upgrade ffmpeg to 5.0

[wszqkzqk]

Archlinux have already upgraded ffmpeg to 5.0 in staging repo, so maybe it's for time for MSYS2 to make plans to upgrade to ffmpeg 5.0……？

[Biswa96]

It is in stating repository for a reason 😉

[lazka]

https://archlinux.org/todo/ffmpeg-50/

[jeroen]

FYI, I maintain some bindings for ffmpeg libav and there were quite a few breaking changes in ffmpeg-5. Mainly just headers that were previously included automatically that you now need to #include explicitly, but also some API's that are no longer public. So there may be some bumps in the road.

[wszqkzqk]

mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg-5.0-4-any.pkg.tar.zst
I‘ve built the ffmpeg 5.0 package, but I have not tested it.

[ZachBacon]

mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg-5.0-4-any.pkg.tar.zst
I‘ve built the ffmpeg 5.0 package, but I have not tested it.

The main problem is software that rely on ffmpeg needs time to adapt. If anything it would need go through a bunch of testing and a bunch of rebuilds of the software that depend on it.

I personally vote for a separate package until we can be sure it can be made default.

[lazka]

Arch has updated now, so feel free to try (and look for patches in Arch if needed)

[Biswa96]

ArchLinux updated the ffmpeg package to v5 as a separate package. The older V4 is packaged as ffmpeg4.4 packge which is linked with other projects like vlc.

[lazka]

ah, thanks, I missed that

[lmorand]

For reference, I've tried building every package that depends on ffmpeg and this was the result (a check mark means it built successfuly using ffmpeg 5.1.2, but no functionality was tested):

• aubio (tested only MINGW64, changes required: aubio/aubio@8a05420)
• audaspace (changes required: neXyon/audaspace@ab15e2f)
• blender
• ffmpeg-python (changes required: Fix ffmpeg/tests/test_ffmpeg.py: test_pipe() (v1: ignore duplicate frames) kkroening/ffmpeg-python#726)
• ffms2 (changes required: FFmpeg API Shenanigans FFMS/ffms2#380)
• freerdp
• gegl
• gr
• gst-libav
• gtk4
• kfilemetadata-qt5
• manim
• mlt
• mpv (tested only MINGW64)
• mtn
• opencascade
• opencv (changes required: Add missing header for LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT opencv/opencv#22357)
• openimageio
• OpenSceneGraph (see Fails to build with ffmpeg 5.0 openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph#1111)
• python-pydub
• python-xpra (after updating to 4.4.3)
• qt6-multimedia
• scrcpy
• shotcut
• streamlink
• vlc
• vtk
• wxSVG
• youtube-dl

[lazka]

thanks!