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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2014 02:37:56 -0600
From:      Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu>
To:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, koobs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FFmpeg and x264 circular dependency
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On 2014.03.03 05:48, Tom Evans wrote:
> libav is not ffmpeg, it is a fork of ffmpeg*, so that is a non starter.
Okay, that clears some things up.

> Option 4, not on your list, is to build an ffmpeg locally just for
> x264 to link to. libx264 can build with whatever options you want,
> building whatever parts of ffmpeg is requires, and the
> presence/non-presence of ffmpeg would not affect the build of libx264.
> This is how other projects that use parts of ffmpeg do it (eg,
> mythtv).
If I understand this correctly, this is essentially option 1 with a workaround that requires the user to keep that local copy up-to-date
manually instead of using ports.




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