Re: [HELP] Quartz and FFMpeg question

[Christian Costa]

> Message du 08/03/05 12:05
> De : "Francois Gouget" 
> A : "Christian Costa" 
> Copie à : "wined" 
> Objet : Re: [HELP] Quartz and FFMpeg question
>
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Christian Costa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on a video wrapper around libavcodec from FFMpeg.
> >
> > Currently I can play rle, msvideo1 and mjpeg movies.
> > But before submitting anything I must handle the dependency with libavcodec 
> > (and maybe libavformat in the future).
> > AFAIK there is no stable API
>
> How do other projects that use libavcodec and ffmpeg deal with the 
> binary compatibility issue?

Mplayer and Gstreamer include ffmpeg sources. They are not in their CVS repository but a snapshot is added during the release process.
Transcode only check for ffmpeg headers and static libraries.
There are several other apps. I will take a look a them.
> At least here (Debian) mplayer depends on 
> the libavcodec package instead of copying the source (but it's a bit of 
> a special case as they come from a third-party package repository).

This is surprising because libavcodec and libavformat are static libraries so once the binary is generated there is no more dependency.

Christian

[HELP] Quartz and FFMpeg question

[Francois Gouget]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Christian Costa wrote:
[...]
> > At least here (Debian) mplayer depends on
> > the libavcodec package instead of copying the source (but it's a bit of
> > a special case as they come from a third-party package repository).
>
> This is surprising because libavcodec and libavformat are static 
> libraries so once the binary is generated there is no more dependency.

IIRC this third-party repository contains both the libavcodec package 
and the mplayer package so I suspect the two are very closely tied 
together.