11-19-2023, 05:12 PM
Manjaro used to ship a patched FFmpeg with v4l2-request support until around 2 years ago, but has dropped it because the fork was not keeping up with newer FFmpeg releases (and Arch is very quick to rebase to a new FFmpeg, so Manjaro has to follow suit).
Building a patched FFmpeg yourself is always an option, but expect trouble if FFmpeg gets updated in the distribution and you cannot get a patched version of the new FFmpeg release (binary compatible with the library versions the distribution packages expect) built right then.
This is yet another sad example of a downstream patch that really needs to go upstream for everyone to benefit.
Building a patched FFmpeg yourself is always an option, but expect trouble if FFmpeg gets updated in the distribution and you cannot get a patched version of the new FFmpeg release (binary compatible with the library versions the distribution packages expect) built right then.
This is yet another sad example of a downstream patch that really needs to go upstream for everyone to benefit.