Bug 322013

Summary:	media-libs/x264-0.0.20100423 is out of date
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael O'Brien <digital.corpus>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gef.kornflakes
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git;a=shortlog
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	updated libonly patch Diff between x264-0.0.20100423.ebuild and x264-0.0.20100527.ebuild ebuild

Description Michael O'Brien 2010-05-29 17:58:52 UTC

media-libs/x264-0.0.20100423 is out of date by over a month. Current git shortlog shows at least 43 bug fixes and  performance bumps for common features of the library.

Reproducibility: Always

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Gef 2010-05-29 19:02:44 UTC

Bump it in a local overlay if you really need a newer version
ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/
Upstream moves fast, plus gentoo devs have to keep media-libs/x264 and media-video/x264-encoder in sync.

Some more accurate information:
As of 28/05/2010, interesting changelog lines includes:
- Detect Atom CPU, enable appropriate asm functions
- Add "Fake interlaced" option
- Reduce memory usage in 2-pass with b-adapt 2
- Remove unnecessary --enable options
- Fix bitrate calculation in progress status
- Fix ABR rate control calculations
- Fix a few performance regressions

Due to a few changes in the Makefile, x264-onlylib-20090408.patch doesn't applies cleanly anymore. I'll provide an updated patch against latest tree.

Comment 2 Gef 2010-05-29 19:13:21 UTC

Created attachment 233437 [details, diff]
updated libonly patch

Comment 3 Gef 2010-05-29 19:17:58 UTC

Created attachment 233439 [details, diff]
Diff between x264-0.0.20100423.ebuild and x264-0.0.20100527.ebuild ebuild

Comment 4 Rafał Mużyło 2010-05-29 21:17:44 UTC

Oh, if it were only those two.
The real problem is ffmpeg and everything that depends on it.

Comment 5 Gef 2010-05-29 21:28:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Oh, if it were only those two.
> The real problem is ffmpeg and everything that depends on it.
> 
Sure, hence the implicit message in my first comment that this is not that easy to bump a packages.

FYI, ~amd64/gcc-4.5, I have sucessfuly rebuilt the following packages against =media-libs/x264-0.0.20100527:
    =media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p22846
    =media-video/transcode-1.1.5-r1
    =media-video/vlc-1.1.0_rc
    =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100506

Comment 6 Michael O'Brien 2010-05-30 08:08:39 UTC

I'm aware that this is no easy bump because of the number of packages that can break when bugs are fixed or features added, which can cause the behavior of things to change. I do deeply appreciate the work that everyone has done in general from gentoo to x264. Thank you for bumping this package and dedicating your time to helping out people like me who don't have the time to spare to do these tasks.

Comment 7 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2010-06-06 10:40:13 UTC

new snapshot added