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digikam package

  1. Bug #1982775
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1982775

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In , Caulier-gilles-9 (caulier-gilles-9) wrote :

Hi,

digiKam 7.X ==> ffmpeg 4.x LTS only
digiKam 8.x ==> ffmpeg 4.x or 5.x (code compile with ffmpeg 5.x but it not yet suitable for production).

The transition between ffmpeg 4 to 5 is complex and not documented. API is at some place completely different or dropped. So for me migrating to ffmpeg 5 is very problematic for all applications depending of this framework and it's very dangerous to make a fast transition.

From a developer viewpoint, FFMpeg 4.x LTS is robust and work very well. I recommend to not switch to ffmpeg 5 in production for the moment.

Gilles Caulier