[FFmpeg-user] Minimum configuration settings for ffprobe-only

[Eugene Gekhter]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Nathan Lewis <nlewis at mail.crawford.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Eugene Gekhter <egekhter at pixcel.com
> ="mailto:egekhter at pixcel.com">> wrote:
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> What would be the recommended configuration settings if all that was
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> required was to build ffprobe for the sole purpose of determining if ffmpeg
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> can decode the input files?
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> The ultimate goal is to compile this with Emscripten into javascript to
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> detect on client-side if the file a user wants to upload is even worth
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> uploading.
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> Wouldn't running "ffmpeg -i" against the incoming file and returning no
> errors give you what you want?  If so, just running make against source
> should yield the results you're after.
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True, I am looking for something as light-weight as possible