From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 28 16:46:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4489805 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:46:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from tux-cave.hellug.gr (tux-cave.hellug.gr [195.134.99.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DAF1848 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:46:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.9, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90) X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: r5SGbvNx031048 Received: from giorgos.local.local (217-162-217-29.dynamic.hispeed.ch [217.162.217.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by tux-cave.hellug.gr (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4) with ESMTP id r5SGbvNx031048 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:38:04 +0300 From: keramida@freebsd.org (Giorgos Keramidas) To: Shane Ambler Subject: Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD References: <20130627002803.32786E67@hub.freebsd.org> <51CBA997.8040006@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:37:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <51CBA997.8040006@ShaneWare.Biz> (Shane Ambler's message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:25:19 +0930") Message-ID: <67um8rhagimbsb.fsf@saturn.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , Simon X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:46:19 -0000 On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:25:19 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 27/06/2013 09:57, Simon wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? >> >> How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? >> >> The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel like I'm the only one who uses >> this which would be very odd given everything uses video nowadays. > > You need to look a little closer. We have three versions available in > ports - > > multimedia/ffmpeg which is at 0.7.15 > multimedia/ffmpeg1 which is at 1.2.1 - updated 2 days ago > multimedia/ffmpeg-devel which is an svn snapshot at 2012.10.13 > > You will find a lot of ports are still configured to use 0.7.15. > > The main catch is the ports are designed to co-exist so ffmpeg1 has the > trailing 1 added to all the lib/cli names. > > I have had no problems using ffmpeg1 with my version of blender for > several months now. It has a cmake option for lib names and then I > added include/ffmpeg1 to C/CXXFLAGS and lib/ffmpeg1 to LDFLAGS. Hi Shane, This should probably be in the multimedi chapter of the Handbook or the FAQ, or in the UPDATING file of the ports. Would you mind if I copied parts of the text and added them to e.g the FAQ?