[FFmpeg-user] FFmpeg problem in Mac

[Reindl Harald]

Am 14.06.2013 20:08, schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos:
>> please note that this is not true for the ordinary user
> The ordinary user who uses ffmpeg?
> You must really be joking if you claim that compiling
> FFmpeg is more difficult than using it.

the ordianry user does not compile *any* software from
source and so it is ridiculous at all permanently
answer on a *user list* "this is not the recent version"

in this cases it would often be better you do not answer
at all and wait someone with the intention to help solving
a problem which *often may not be caused* by not using
the latest snapshot instead inistit on the snapshot and
nothing else

>> c) yes it is possible to build a static x264 far away from the
>>    system paths and link ffmpeg staticially against it which
>>    is what i am doing since some months but that is *far away*
>>    from the knowledge 99 out of 100 ordianray users
> 
> Why does every ordinary FFmpeg user need x264 

because H264 is the most relevant video codec?

> and why can't he use the distribution version?

because it was *very often* to old to compile
a renect ffmpeg with it?

> Or do you mean x264 is special because you need 
> a current version but FFmpeg isn't?

no i mean that it was *often* not possible to get
a recent ffmpeg working without fight against the
dependency chain at all

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