[Bf-committers] compiling ffmpeg support on linux

[Joe Eagar]

Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
> hi 
>
> how does one compile the new ffmpeg support ?
>
> there is more to it than setting the flag to 'true'
>
> # enable ffmpeg  support
> WITH_BF_FFMPEG = 'false' # -DWITH_FFMPEG
> BF_FFMPEG = '/usr'
> BF_FFMPEG_INC = '${BF_FFMPEG}/include'
> BF_FFMPEG_LIBPATH='$(BF_FFMPEG)/lib'
> BF_FFMPEG_LIB = 'avformat avcodec avutil'
>
> does one need a ffmpeg installation in '/usr' ?
> i thought it was a "local" version within blender ?
>
> thanks
> kind regards
> jmcs3
export WITH_FFMPEG='true' for make.

For scons/mingw, in you user-config.py put WITH_BF_FFMPEG="true".  I 
believe this should work with linux and mingw.  I'm not sure though; I 
don't know if my ffmpeg support for mingw patch was ever committed

Joe