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ffpyplayer build fails with ffmpeg 8.0.1 (from develop)

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
android, python
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with ffpyplayer/pic.c and the reported ffmpeg 8.0.1 build output, then inspect how ffpyplayer is built in the Android packaging path. Reproduce the failure with ffmpeg 8.0.1 and determine the project change needed for the build to complete without the missing avfft.h error.

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Description

I am building ffpyplayer (version: v4.5.1) and I see that the ffmpeg version got upgraded to 8.0.1 and it throws below error.

Error:

/home/somnath/codes/git/my-org/image-to-animation-offline/kivy/.buildozer/android/platform/build-arm64-v8a/build/other_builds/ffpyplayer-openssl/arm64-v8a__ndk_target_28/ffpyplayer/ffpyplayer/pic.c:773:10: fatal error: 'libavcodec/avfft.h' file not found
  773 | #include "libavcodec/avfft.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
error: command '/usr/bin/ccache' failed with exit code 1

ERROR Backend subprocess exited when trying to invoke build_wheel
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