Re: [K3b-user] Problems with 1.0 and ffmpeg

[Sebastian <tr...@k3...>]

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:00, Dennis Herber wrote:
> > you might try adding "-lavtools" but I don't think that will really hel=
p.
> > Are
> > you sure your system is consistent? Did you install any packages from
> > different sources? Compile some packages yourself? Anything that might
> > have
> > broken linkage?
>
> Well, I can=B4t really say if my system is consistent. At least I did
> deinstall the "ffmpeg" package that is delivered in the official
> respositories of my kubuntu dapper system, before recompiling ffmpeg from
> sources.
>
> And where to add "-lavtools"? I didn=B4t find this option for ./configure
> wether for ffmpeg sources nor for k3b1.0rc4.

in plugins/decoder/ffmpeg/configure.in.in

> But I discovered the following ./configure option of the k3b source:
>
> --enable-ffmpeg-all-codecs
>
> What is behind this?

does disable the codec check and simply uses whatever ffmpeg detects as=20
usable. This is unsafe since ffmpeg's detection is not very reliable (at=20
least not the way I use it, it might be possible that there is a better way=
 I=20
do not know about).