RE: [Motion-user] mpeg problem

[Kenneth L. <ke...@la...>]

At 18:47 2005-08-26, you wrote:
>I've not got ffmpeg installed.
>
>As I understand it you only need it if you are going to write out movies
>using motion (or create the afterwards).
>
>Since I'm not, I've not got it installed.  When I compile motion it says
>it can't find it and doesn't worry about those options..
>
>Regards,
>
>spike...

Yes.

Motion when compiled from source will chech if ffmpeg development headers 
and library is installed.
What is cannot know is if the version of ffmpeg (ffmpeg has not yet found 
out why you need to make formal releases so people have a known baseline) 
is compatible with Motion.

This especially becomes critical with motion rpms which much be installed 
with a compatible version of ffmpeg.

If ffmpeg is installed as binary package it will often have many 
dependencies. Even if Motion does not need any of them like mp3 sound - 
ffmpeg will still fail to work because they are missing.

Kenneth


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