Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Compiling ffmpeg and ffplay

Wow, this topic can go on and on... Let me see if I can distill it to the very essentials.

First, to code in C or C++ effectively, get Eclipse for C/C++ Developers. That said, you don't need Eclipse for the rest of this blog entry.

Download these three things: LAME, SDL, and FFmpeg. You may have trouble downloading LAME as the SourceForge server seems to be unreliable. Compile them in that exact order (this is very important). Use the instructions here as well as the instructions included in the downloads. I'm distilling days of effort into a single paragraph so I'll update this entry or add a new one if I try this again...

When you're done, a successful adventure will mean you can invoke the ffmpeg transcoder as well as the sample ffplay by entering them as a Unix command.

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