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firefox: pin to ffmpeg 7.x#460904

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Work to support ffmpeg 8.0 is ongoing and due to the update we lost swdec support for h264/hevc/aac.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1962139

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Work to support ffmpeg 8.0 is ongoing and due to the update we lost swdec
support for h264/hevc/aac.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1962139

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I can both confirm the bug and the fix.
Thank you!

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