[jmarshall]

@tutu: It's possible to build Gotham with an updated version of ffmpeg, yes. Obviously you need to know what you're doing when doing so - there are several minefields to hit, but basically the process is to update the internal ffmpeg version and go through the patches to ffmpeg we apply, applying any that aren't already there (many will be superseded as they are patches from newer versions of ffmpeg itself).

Once done, test, test, test some more.

Post-Gotham we'll be looking at moving the internal ffmpeg out into a separate subproject to make it easier to update (i.e. it'll be a fork of ffmpeg's git with our patches on top) which should simplify the above process a little.

Cheers,
Jonathan