As an example, Fedora + RPM Fusion has these versions of ffmpeg:
f16 release: ffmpeg-0.8.5-2.fc16.x86_64.rpm
f16 updates: ffmpeg-0.8.12-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm
f17 release: ffmpeg-0.10.3-1.fc17.x86_64.rpm
f17 updates: ffmpeg-0.10.4-2.fc17.x86_64.rpm
rawhide: ffmpeg-0.11.1-2.fc18.x86_64.rpm
Dvbcut wont build against any of these without patches.
In the dvbcut-devel mailing list [1], Olaf Dietsche provides patches to allow compile against
0.7.x (i believe).
I've created a further 2 patches to allow compile with each of the above version in Fedora/RPM Fusion.
The first covers 0.10.3 and 0.11.1, while the second adds 0.8.5.
Note that ffmpeg of at least 0.10.4 (on Fedora 17), seems to fix a problem with export of HD/AC3 recordings, where the audio AC3 stream would often not be detected (not shown in export dialog), and the exported mpg file would have no audio.
Hopefully a few minutes can be spared to commit these patches to svn ?
patch to allow build against ffmpeg 0.10 and 0.11
patch to also allow compile against 0.8.12