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I'm currently building all the extra packages for MLED and MLWS 14.1. Some of my extra stuff needs ffmpeg, like gst-ffmpeg, Audacity or the rebuilt K3B. The current packages - based on Slackware 14.0 - rely on a quite ancient version of ffmpeg (0.11.1), and I wonder if that choice was made on purpose, e. g. if other stuff will refuse to build on a more recent version.
I took a peek on ffmpeg's site, and the latest stable version is 2.1. I wonder if I should go for that, or if all the other stuff (Audacity, gst-ffmpeg, ...) will refuse to build. Since this will be a rather time-consuming task, I thought I'd better ask first. Maybe some of the multimedia gurus have a clear sight at their crystal ball
audacity cannot be built against any version of ffmpeg later than 0.10.x, that's why I'm using here an ffmpeg010 package and a modified audacity build script, but it's a dirty solution: we better wait for audacity devs to support later ffmpeg versions and in the meantime, convert our stuff to wav (using ffmpeg) before editing, edit it, save it, and reconvert to the desired format (using ffmpeg).
gst-ffmpeg builds its own ffmpeg version, it doesn't rely on the system's ffmpeg libraries.
Just like ponce said, gst-ffmpeg doesn't need ffmpeg. It builds against an internal version of libav.
I'm working on ffmpeg 2.1 for the 14.1 repo on SBo. Planning on putting up a branch for it later today or tomorrow. So in case you wanna go for that, could save you some time
Just like ponce said, gst-ffmpeg doesn't need ffmpeg. It builds against an internal version of libav.
I'm working on ffmpeg 2.1 for the 14.1 repo on SBo. Planning on putting up a branch for it later today or tomorrow. So in case you wanna go for that, could save you some time
Just spent a couple hours fiddling with ffmpeg and various libs it can be built against. Updated most of them, and ffmpeg-2.1 built fine.
Just like ponce said, gst-ffmpeg doesn't need ffmpeg. It builds against an internal version of libav.
I'm working on ffmpeg 2.1 for the 14.1 repo on SBo. Planning on putting up a branch for it later today or tomorrow. So in case you wanna go for that, could save you some time
thanks ppr:kut, in the next days I'll try to test the stuff I use with the things you updated on your branch (BTW, thanks also for version bumping stuff for me - less work to do! ).
thanks ppr:kut, in the next days I'll try to test the stuff I use with the things you updated on your branch (BTW, thanks also for version bumping stuff for me - less work to do! ).
Haha, you're welcome! I mostly picked those things from your git repo anyway! So, thanks for the pre-work!
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