[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 3.0.2 and other point releases

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 15:48:08 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> like always, backport things to the release branches if you want to
>> backport something before.
>
> *Something* seems to have been fixed on master with parsing HLS, which
> wasn't working in 3.0.1:
> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2016-April/031750.html
> I didn't manage to figure out which commit that could have been, but
> indeed 3.0.1 and older ffmpegs (2.x as well) seem to break on various
> HLS inputs. I would consider this fix quite valuable.
>
> (I couldn't figure out the root cause either. D'uh.)
>

HLS was changed quite a bit since 3.0 was tagged due to various
refactorings, backporting all that would seem rather risky.

- Hendrik