[gephex-devel] Information about ffmpeg compile problems on windows

[georg at kexbox.org]

>>> gephex at gephex.org--2004/ffmpeg--cvs--1.0--patch-8
>>>
>>> its from 2005-06-16. With the patch i posted at about that time gephex
>>> compiles with that api.
>>
>> Does gephex still work with older ffmpeg versions after applying the patch?
>> If not, we should make it depend on the ffmpeg version (I already did one
>> change like that for seeking support).
>
> No, there is a "rational" type now in the ffmpeg api and i only changed
> our code to use the new interface. That is also the reason why the patch
> isn't in main yet. Could you test the new ffmpeg version with that patch
> on os-x and windows. We'll see if support for the old api version is
> still needed on some platform.

Since it is not difficult and does not obfuscate the code too much to
support both the old and the new API I vote for supporting both.
Gives us much more flexibility in choosing an ffmpeg version if problems
occur (as already happened in the past).

Regards,

Georg


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