[Bf-committers] FFMPEG, we need decision!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

I am very confused about the current status of ffmpeg in Blender. It's  
a bit awkward to do all of this just before the release, in CVS freeze  
period.

Nevertheless, movie/audio support in Linux Blender was very much behind  
the OSX/Windows versions, so for Linux we could treat this as a crucial  
release target.

My proposal is to at least add this to the Linux release, and have the  
other platform maintainers decide themselves whether or not to include  
it in this release. Unresolved is:
- Library size issue (what is is what not)
- Scons/make support
- Stable compile in windows
- testing to compare ffmpeg with quicktime/libavicodec in osx/windows

DJ Capelis: was ffmpeg now in RC2 or not? If not, can you make a RC3  
then?

Peter: I would really like to see a doc about ffmpeg support in  
Blender. In wiki I can only find the old proposal here:
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/FFMpegIntegration

Maybe another Linux user could help with a good doc?

-Ton-

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