Latest Update ffmpeg dependency issue

I have been having no problems doing updates to my pinephone until the most recent update which is showing a dependency issue with the ffmpeg-pp package

this is the output of the pacman update

:: Synchronising package databases...
 mobile downloading...
 core downloading...
 extra downloading...
 community downloading...
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: installing libvpx (1.11.0-1) breaks dependency 'libvpx.so=6-64' required by ffmpeg-pp
:: installing x264 (3:0.163.r3060.5db6aa6-1) breaks dependency 'libx264.so=161-64' required by ffmpeg-pp

I thought I should check here for a solution before breaking my os and having to reinstall

Install regular ffmpeg with:

sudo pacman -Syu ffmpeg

Answer Yes when it asks if it should replace ffmpeg-pp with ffmpeg.

Reason:
ffmpeg-pp was an attempt by us, to get video hardware accelerated. But the source has not been updated in quite a while, so the underlying libraries have become incompatible in the meantime.

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thanks! I had the same issue but didnt post.

Thanks for the update @Strit

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