Bug 1533

Summary: Enable FFmpeg 7 and 8 in FFMPEGMediaPlayer, drop version 4 and 5
Product: [JogAmp] Jogl Reporter: Sven Gothel <sgothel>
Component: videoAssignee: Sven Gothel <sgothel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4    
Version: 2.7.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: all   
Type: FEATURE SCM Refs:
d05178ff784bf0f327f15d199bf1d47f323dc693 881f2062fb64ce736e00440fbddbaedfe5f23ca8
Workaround: ---

Description Sven Gothel 2025-12-17 01:21:11 CET 
On Debian 13 (and similarly Ubuntu/ArchLinux/..), FFmpeg 7 is being installed.
Further, current FFmpeg developer version is 8.

FFmpeg versions 4 and 5 are no more used in contemporary distributions,
hence we can also remove these to save footprint.
Comment 1 Sven Gothel 2025-12-19 05:35:16 CET 
Resolved as described.

Only material code change:
- drop using `avcodec_close` for just `avcodec_free_context`