vlc: prefer the ffmpeg2 snapshot

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/vlc/build/vlc.SlackBuild b/vlc/build/vlc.SlackBuild
index f5bd6392..add44190 100755
--- a/vlc/build/vlc.SlackBuild
+++ b/vlc/build/vlc.SlackBuild
@@ -434,12 +434,14 @@
 #               Removed: libggi (obsoleted, unsupported).
 #               Removed: aacenc, faad2/faac libraries (not used anymore).
 # 2.2.8-2     06/dec/2017  by Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>
-#             * Add a switch "USE_FFMPEG3" which defaults to "YES" and add
+#             * Add a switch "USE_FFMPEG3" which defaults to "NO" and add
 #               back the code that adds the older ffmpeg2 engine to the vlc
 #               package instead of using the new ffmpeg3 snapshot.
 #               Use the following command to compile a package using the
-#               ffmpeg2 libraries internally:
-#               USE_FFMPEG3=NO ./vlc.SlackBuild
+#               ffmpeg3 libraries internally:
+#               USE_FFMPEG3=YES ./vlc.SlackBuild
+#               Note: using the ffmpeg3 branch seems to cause segfaults
+#                     in combination with hardware-assisted decoding.
 #
 # Run 'sh vlc.SlackBuild' to build a Slackware package.
 # The package (.txz) plus descriptive .txt file are created in /tmp .
@@ -572,9 +574,9 @@ STATIC_QT4=$(echo $STATIC_QT4 | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
 STATIC_FFMPEG=${STATIC_FFMPEG:-"YES"}
 STATIC_FFMPEG=$(echo $STATIC_FFMPEG | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
 
-# When compiling ffmpeg statically, use the ffmpeg3 branch by default.
-# Set this to "NO" to use a ffmpeg2 snapshot instead:
-USE_FFMPEG3=${USE_FFMPEG3:-"YES"}
+# When compiling ffmpeg statically, use the ffmpeg2 branch by default.
+# Set this to "YES" to use a ffmpeg3 snapshot instead:
+USE_FFMPEG3=${USE_FFMPEG3:-"NO"}
 
 # You can disable building the Mozilla plugin by defining MOZPLUGIN="NO":
 MOZPLUGIN=${MOZPLUGIN:-"YES"}