[Bf-committers] FFmpeg update instructions

[Sergey I. Sharybin]

Hi,

Thanks you all for feedback.

Some answers are inlined.

Ejner Fergo wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> Just some points I noticed:
>
> Where you write
> "To use this libraries create the lib/ folder near the folder which
> contains blender sources"
> and later
> BF_FFMPEG = "../lib/linux/ffmpeg"
>
> I know what you mean, but there may be others that just copy/paste
> that relative path but have not checked out the libs at the right
> place. Maybe it could be spelled out a bit more:
> "To use these libraries create the lib/ folder in the dir containing
> the blender source dir"
> or something like that, or maybe even
> BF_FFMPEG = "/path/to/cloned/lib/linux/ffmpeg"
I've write where libs should be cloned. Also, i've just added 
illustration how directory structure should looks like.
> Another thing I've helped some users with, is when compiling ffmpeg be
> sure to have the libs in the library search path. This ensures you
> don't get a message like "missing libavformat.so.53" when trying to
> start blender. In your example:
>
> Create a .conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ (for example ffmpeg.conf)
> containing the line:
> /opt/ffmpeg-0.8.2/lib
> and then run (as root):
> ldconfig
Yeah, this can be helpful.
>
> Last thing, you have ffmpeg-0.8.1 in places where it should say 0.8.2
Already fixed :)
>
> Hope the above makes sense.
>
> Best regrads,
> Ejner
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Sergey I. Sharybin<g.ulairi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried to write a short HOWTO about updating FFmpeg on linux
>> platform to be able to compile Blender easily with new proxies stuff.
>>
>> Here's link to this doc:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nazg-gul/FFmpegUpdate
>>
>> I'm almost sure additional changes are needed, but it should be useful
>> already. Feel free to contact me about things i've forgot to mention
>> there or if you're commiter feel free to update this page.
>>
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>> With best regards, Sergey I. Sharybin
>>
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With best regards, Sergey I. Sharybin