Re: [Audacity-devel] Supported FFmpeg version

[Martyn S. <mar...@gm...>]

On 14/01/2013 00:10, Leland wrote:
> On 1/13/2013 5:59 PM, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>> On 1/13/2013 3:20 PM, Martyn Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/01/2013 21:53, Richard Ash wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>> Where come the current installers from?
>>>> I'm not 100% sure. I think Martyn might have done Windows at one time,
>>>> but they could date back further than that to the GSoC project student,
>>>> LRN.
>>> Just for the record, I have never built FFmpeg, or distributed it.
>>> Our manual links to http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/
>>>
>>
>> Two things to mention here:
>>
>> * Leland's been discussing switching to using the exe instead of the dll
>> on Windows. Does that work for other platforms.
>>
>> * I really don't want Audacity associated directly with FFmpeg (or
>> LAME), so if an Audacity contributor does builds (as Leland used to),
>> it's a completely separate project, and not condoned or sponsored by us.
>> That's in addition to why we don't host them, and Buanzo does.
>>
> Yep, what he said.  :-)

Agreed.

> That's why switching to using the ffmpeg command should be a good thing.
>    Audacity could provide basic/common/general options, but the user
> would still be able to get fancy using the command line import/export.
> And it's more likely to find prebuild ffmpeg commands than libraries in
> the format Audacity needs.

Agreed.  It would be great to do that for 2.0.4 and reduce 
considerably our support effort for the ever-moving FFmpeg.  But not 
for 2.0.3 which we are trying to get out now!

TTFN
Martyn

> Leland
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