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fix: support older ffmpeg (libavformat < 59) in cv-reader#119

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@bsflll bsflll commented May 5, 2026

The cv-reader build fails on Ubuntu 22.04 which ships with ffmpeg 4.4 (libavformat 58.x).

In ffmpeg 5.0+ (libavformat 59+), AVCodec became const-qualified in av_find_best_stream(). This PR adds a version check to support both old and new ffmpeg APIs.

Fixes build error:

error: cannot convert 'const AVCodec**' to 'AVCodec**'

Add version check for LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MAJOR to handle the const
AVCodec* change in av_find_best_stream() between ffmpeg 4.x and 5.x.

Ubuntu 22.04 ships ffmpeg 4.4 (libavformat 58.x) which uses AVCodec**,
while newer ffmpeg 5.0+ (libavformat 59+) uses const AVCodec**.
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