Package update:

Update to ffmpeg-4.4.1 (Security Update). Also includes some tweaks to
the information regarding the FATE test suite.

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>October 27th, 2021</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to ffmpeg-4.4.1 (Security Update). Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15697">#15697</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[renodr] - Update to exiv2-0.27.5 (Security Update). Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15527">#15527</ulink>.</para>

multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
   <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-http "https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-ftp  " ">
   <!ENTITY ffmpeg-md5sum        "7b9d5b652d20e8c5405304ad72636d4a">
-  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size          "9.2 MB">
+  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size          "9.1 MB">
-  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize     "176 MB (add 2.4 GB for the FATE suite/tests, add 1.4 GB for documentation)">
+  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize     "212 MB (add 1.9 GB for the FATE suite/tests, add 1.4 GB for documentation)">
-  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time          "1.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 3.6 SBU (with THREADS=4) to run the FATE suite after sample files are downloaded; add 0.7 SBU for doxygen docs)">
+  <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time          "1.4 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 1.1 SBU (with THREADS=4) to run the FATE suite after sample files are downloaded; add 0.8 SBU for doxygen docs)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="ffmpeg" xreflabel="FFmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;">
@@ -268,24 +268,24 @@ find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;/api -type d -exec chmod -c 0755 \{}
     <para>
       The <filename class="directory">fate-suite</filename> directory is
       created and the files are downloaded there. That command actually runs an
-      rsync command, to obtain the sample files.  You may want to compress and
+      rsync command to obtain the sample files.  You may want to compress and
-      keep this directory for testing again, in another system, or when a new
+      keep this directory for testing again, for testing in another system,
-      version of ffmpeg is launched. Then, you unpack the sample files in the
+      or for when a new version of ffmpeg is released. Then, unpack the sample
-      source directory, and run, again, the <command>make fate-rsync
+      files in the source directory, and run the <command>make fate-rsync
-      ...</command> command above, to sync with the repository. Now, the
+      ...</command> command above to sync with the upstream repository. The
-      download size and time are drastically reduced.  Estimated values in
+      download size and time are drastically reduced by doing this.  Estimated
-      "Package Information" do not include the download SBU. Some samples may
+      values in "Package Information" do not include the download SBU. Some
-      have been removed, in the new version, so, in order to be sure local and
+      samples may have been removed in newer versions, so in order to be sure
-      server fate samples are identical, when you use previously saved samples,
+      local and server fate samples are identical when you use previously
-      run the following command:
+      saved samples, run the following command:
     </para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>rsync -vrltLW  --delete --timeout=60 --contimeout=60 \
       rsync://fate-suite.ffmpeg.org/fate-suite/ fate-suite/</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
-      Next, FATE is executed, with the commands (you obtain a number of tests
+      Next, execute FATE with the following commands (there are more than 3800
-      larger than 3700):
+      tests in the suite):
     </para>
 
 <screen remap="test"><userinput>make fate THREADS=<replaceable>N</replaceable> SAMPLES=fate-suite/ | tee ../fate.log &amp;&amp;
@@ -294,7 +294,12 @@ grep ^TEST ../fate.log | wc -l</userinput></screen>
     <para>
       where <replaceable>N</replaceable> is an integer,
       <replaceable>N</replaceable> &le; number of cores in the system.
-    </para>
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
+     A successful run should return no errors or warnings, just a list of tests
+     and total amount at the end.
+   </para>
 
   </sect2>
 
@@ -363,9 +368,8 @@ grep ^TEST ../fate.log | wc -l</userinput></screen>
     </para>
 
     <para>
-      <parameter>--enable-libfdk-aac</parameter>: Enables currently the
+      <parameter>--enable-libfdk-aac</parameter>: Enables AAC audio encoding via
-      highest-quality AAC audio encoding via <filename
+      <filename class="libraryfile">libfdk-aac</filename>.
-      class="libraryfile">libfdk-aac</filename>.
     </para>
 
     <para>

packages.ent

@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY pnmixer-version              "0.7.2">
 
 <!-- Chapter 44 -->
-<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version               "4.4">
+<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version               "4.4.1">
 <!ENTITY mplayer-version              "export-2021-07-29">
 <!ENTITY xine-ui-version              "0.99.12">
 <!ENTITY transcode-version            "1.1.7">