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mpenkov / ffmpeg-tutorial

A set of tutorials that demonstrates how to write a video player based on FFmpeg
http://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html
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support older versions of libav (for Ubuntu 12.10) #21

Closed mattip closed 10 years ago

mattip commented 10 years ago

Hi. I was trying to get the original dranger tutorial to work, and found your fork. I took the liberty of doing some VERSION magic to get it to work on Ubuntu 12.10 with the version of libav found there.

Did you ever drop dranger a note since your repo should probably appear on his site somewhere...

Matti

ghost commented 10 years ago

I don't think the tutorial needs to support older versions - it would require too much effort to do this properly. In my opinion, it's better to not do it at all. On top of that, Ubuntu's libav and ffmpeg proper are essentially two different libraries - I don't think it's worth supporting the former.

The alternative is to require people to build the tutorial against the most recent version of ffmpeg. Given that the audience of the tutorial is developers who are capable of building ffmpeg from source, I think this alternative is simpler and better than us spending time and supporting older versions of ffmpeg and libav. As a side note, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, with a fairly recent ffmpeg built from source - it's really not hard to do.

That said, I really appreciate your effort. If there's anything else you'd like to look at (there are some issues with the tutorial), then please do.

I did write to Dranger about this repository, but he never replied. There's a link to this tutorial on the ffmpeg documentation page, so it shouldn't be that hard for people to find.

mattip commented 10 years ago

ok, it's your call, so I'll close this.