Article 6CABM ffmpeg v4 to v5 upgrade breaks many SlackBuilds

ffmpeg v4 to v5 upgrade breaks many SlackBuilds

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slack-uke
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Just a general observation.

I run both slackware64 15.0 & current machines. I keep a certain core packages running on both platforms and have noticed that SlackBuilds that rely on ffmpeg often break on current when building because of the upgrade to v5.

Is there a simple solution to this?

Many of the source packages have yet to upgrade to v5 so it is not just a matter of upgrading the source packages to the latest version.

The simplest kludge I have done so far is to disable ffmpeg capability.

Has anybody created an independent ffmpeg v4 for current that does not interfere with ffmpeg v5? something like having gtk2 & gtk3 or qt4 & qt5 coexist.
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