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Yalir / sfeMovie

sfeMovie is a simple C++ library that lets you play movies in SFML based applications. It relies on FFmpeg to read medias and remains consistent with SFML's naming conventions.
http://sfemovie.yalir.org/
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Investigate on ExternalProject for CMake #33

Open Ceylo opened 11 years ago

Ceylo commented 11 years ago

ExternalProject may help at simplifying the configuration and build of FFmpeg. See whether this is usable, with specific care for Windows as it doesn't come presinstalled wih some required unix tools.

See #31 for more details.

firefly2442 commented 11 years ago

I downloaded the latest 2.0 version of FFmpeg, but sadly it does not appear that they use CMake for their build system. However, it looks like ExternalProject can run configure scripts. This is promising because we might be able to move the logic and settings from the build_ffmpeg.sh script to the CMake side. This would make things more transparent for the user.

Ceylo commented 11 years ago

Yes, I've no doubt ExternalProject can build FFmpeg on Unixes, but what about Windows? That's the main issue with ExternalProject.

firefly2442 commented 11 years ago

Hmm yes, I'm not sure about the best way to handle that on Windows would be...