Replace use of Libav with FFmpeg

edalex-ian commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

oEQ currently requires Libav for creation of thumbnails and previews of videos. However, linux distributions have deprecated this, with it being replaced with FFmpeg.

Describe the solution you'd like

One of:

Replace the hardcoded executable names with the FFmpeg equivalent;
Externalise the executables names (not just paths) into configuration for easy updating - maybe in another decade FFmpeg will be deprecated; or
Externalise the whole command...

Additional context

For now there is the work around (symlinking) as mentioned in #676 . So we can wait until a future milestone. We should consider some doco updates though.

ChristianMurphy commented 5 years ago

It could also be worth considering using an existing JVM binding for ffmpeg, like https://github.com/bramp/ffmpeg-cli-wrapper Which can provide a more idiomatic API, additional validation, simpler progress reporting, and better error reporting.

Abdullah8006 commented 5 years ago

I have this issue running openEquella on Ubunutu 18.04. Any updates on this would definetely help. Also for the workaround, since i am new on Linux, a proper working solution for symlinking would be of huge help.

abdkhanEummena commented 5 years ago

@cbeach47 In the last dev meeting I couldn't somehow unmute my audio. Sorry about that.

Yes this is the same issue that was being discussed. I hope this will be fixed in the upcoming releases.

Also can you please confirm if this going to be fixed in the coming release or in later releases.

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Replace use of Libav with FFmpeg #697