[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 3.5 / 4.0

[James Almer]

On 4/12/2018 7:53 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 02:50:08AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Its 4 months since 3.4 was branched so its time for a new major release
>>
>> Is 4.0 or 3.5 preferred ?
>> Any name suggestions ?
>>
>> If there are no objections i will likely make that release in the next weeks
> 
> more time has passed than intended ...
> 
> what issues do remain that need to be fixed before the release ?
> I see fate.ffmpeg.org is not looking that well (compared to most
> releases in the past) i remember this being pretty much green longer ago
> do people want these to be fixed before the release ?
> 
> Thanks

I fixed two targets the other day, and another has the patch pending in
the ml (OpenBSD). Then there are your FreeBSD clients that you need to
switch to yasm, and apply the fix to the c11 check in configure.

The kfreebsd failures are for the tests filter-metadata-silencedetect
and checkasm-aacpsdsp. After a recent patch silencedetect prints float
values with more precision. Paul said to remove the test and forget
about it, but no idea if there's a better solution.
The checkasm failure can be solved by changing the value passed as
epsilon to float_near_abs_eps_array(), but i don't know which one would
be best without making it too lax and end up having it succeed even when
it's getting bad results.

The rest of the failures are old, like random_seed on some obscure
systems and a bunch of msvc miscompilation failures that Microsoft will
not fix.