Fw: [Linphone-developers] ffmpeg source

[Chris Vine]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:57:47 +0100
Joerg Bergmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.11.2009, 10:41 +0000 schrieb Chris Vine:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there any chance that a tarball of the ffmpeg source used by the
> > linphone-3.2.1 release could be made available on the plugins source
> > page?  At the moment, ffmpeg-0.5 is too old as msx264-1.2.0 will not
> > compile with it, and recent ffmpeg snapshots are too new as
> > x264-snapshot-20090704-linphone-org is to old for the snapshot.
> > 
> > Alternatively, what is the checkout date or revision number in the
> > ffmpeg repository are you using?  Or is the linphone patched
> > version of x264 no longer necessary?
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> From the ffmpeg download site:
> 
> ==============citation============
> FFmpeg has always been a very experimental and developer-driven
> project. It is a key component in many multimedia projects and has
> new features added constantly. SVN snapshots work really well 99% of
> the time so people are not afraid to use them.
> 
> In order to use the standard SVN client to check out the source code:
> 
>         svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
> 
> If you cannot access the repository, you are being firewalled
> somewhere. Our Subversion setup does not work over HTTP/HTTPS, nor
> will it in the future. There is no point in asking for it, the
> decision is final. =============end of citation=========
> 
> I have done so, and ffmpeg plus linphone-3.2.1 compiled quite good.

You will see that I said above that "recent ffmpeg snapshots are too
new as x264-snapshot-20090704-linphone-org is to old for the
snapshot".

What checkout date or revision number in the ffmpeg repository are you
using?  I can assure you that current checkouts do not work.

Chris