[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/libopenh264: Drop openh264 runtime version checks

[Martin Storsjö]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, Kalev Lember wrote:

> With the way the runtime checks are currently set up, every single
> openh264 release, no matter how minor, is considered an ABI break and
> requires ffmpeg recompilation. This is unnecessarily strict because it
> doesn't allow downstream distributions to ship any openh264 bug fix
> version updates without breaking ffmpeg's openh264 support.
>
> Years ago, at the time when ffmpeg's openh264 support was merged,
> openh264 releases were done without a versioned soname (the library was
> just libopenh264.so, unversioned). Since then, starting with version
> 1.3.0, openh264 has started using versioned sonames and the intent has
> been to bump the soname every time there's a new release with an ABI
> change.
>
> This patch drops the exact version check and instead adds a minimum
> requirement on 1.3.0 to the configure script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kalev Lember <klember at redhat.com>
> ---

Thanks, pushed now!

// Martin