Re: [Mlt-devel] How to choose shared libavformat

[Dan D. <da...@de...>]

On Monday 11 June 2007 01:02, Jean-Michel Pour=E9 wrote:
> It does not seem clear to me how to choose libavformat when compiling
> MLT svn against a shared version of ffmpeg/libavformat.
>
> FFMPEG/avformat options:
>
>   --avformat-svn          - Obtain ffmpeg from Subversion
>   --avformat-shared=3Dpath  - Link against a shared installation of ffmpeg
> (default)
>   --avformat-static=3Dpath  - Link against a static ffmpeg dev tree
>   --avformat-ldextra=3Dlibs - Provide additional libs to link with
>   --avformat-suffix=3Dsuff  - Specify a custom suffix for an ffmpeg shared
> build
>   --avformat-swscale      - Use ffmpeg libswcale instead of img_convert
>
> Does it mean that you can choose the path (=3Dfolder) where libavformat
> resides. Why not the path to libavformat shared library?

No, because it needs to know about more than one library as well as the=20
location of the headers.

> In my case, I would like to specify:
> --avformat-shared=3D/usr/lib/libavformat.so.51.12.1

Based upon this, as long as you have the headers as well=20
in /usr/include/ffmpeg, then you should specify nothing.

> Do I miss something?

I added a Twiki page:
http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/BuildTips