On 13 Jun 2005 18:11:14 +0200, Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> wrote:

If there's only a static lib then I guess it's fine. Is that the case
on all major distros?


I just dug through a bunch of distros and no one ships ffmpeg by default.  That includes Fedora 4, SuSE 9.2/9.3, Mandriva 10.1, and Slackware 10.1.  It's marked "optional" on Debian sarge. 
 
I think I ran into this same issue with xine a while ago.  I believe they ship ffmpeg, but can't remember.

-Brian