[FFmpeg-user] Compatibility of FFMPEG builds

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 22:47:10 +0300, scrutinizer wrote:
> Yes, I was talking about macOS 10.7, and even the source code needs
> to be compatible.

ffmpeg's source code is extremely compatible, honestly. They go to long
efforts not to depend on modern compiler or system features.

> Every link I ran across on FFMPEG.ORG <http://ffmpeg.org/> will
> direct to the source code that would require at least macOS 10.9

Where? On the download page with the sources, no restriction whatsoever
is mentionend.

, but even with the long list of the links
> to source code it’s difficult to pick one rather than downloading
> from every provided link.

Pardon?

http://ffmpeg.org/
->
http://ffmpeg.org/download.html
right column "Get the Sources"
"Download snapshot", alternatively "git Snapshot".

Assuming you have a compiler (Xcode?), you just unpack the sources,
change into the source directory, and run

./configure
make

which should give you an ffmpeg in the same directory. Possibly without
external dependencies, which may or may not be sufficient.

Furthermore, there's a wiki page giving you several other options on
building your own ffmpeg, incl. more external dependencies:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/macOS

Moritz