Remove OMX and MMAL from ARM builds #77
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For 10.8, I think we should remove all of the Pi-specific hardware acceleration stuff: it never worked properly (besides a very specific configuration set) and it's better to integrate something that truly works fine instead of the patchwork that current MMAL and OMX is.
Raspberry Pi development is transitioning towards V4L2 for hardware decoding/encoding and MMAL/OMX are in a deprecation path. They also only worked properly in Raspbian Stretch and Pi3 devices, other configurations produced mixed results. Right now, in Bullseye, ffmpeg and ffprobe doesn't start at all.
With this patch, Pis will do software encoding/decoding (which is what most people ended using up anyway) until there's a better hardware acceleration path in the future.
Fixes jellyfin/jellyfin#32 jellyfin/jellyfin#75