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0 pointsjohnchristopher11y ago0 comments

> "would probably be astonished by the number of developers who are building ffmpeg from source"

> Its a do-ocracy and if it took two or so years until > Andreas packaged it up, I'm not thinking the claimed demand actually exists. All those devs going to all that work to compile ffmpeg, and yet none of them could be bothered to run dpkg-buildpackage... nah just not seeing it.

I have only been using ffmpeg for 8 months for quick track mixing so I don't know much about its history but going on ffmpeg.org always led me to some ready to use and out-of-the-box binaries hosted there http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/ so I don't really see the need for a deb package. (unless the environment is minimal and many lib are missing ? I don't use minimal debian anymore so there's that). Am I missing something ?

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fndrplayer1311y ago

Technically, no. But recall that there are many packages that build on libav* or libsw* that could/should also be on ffmpeg which is, as noted elsewhere in this discussion, a safer, more capable build.

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