[FFmpeg-user] ffplay not found

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Mon Oct 13 18:56:40 CEST 2014


Moritz Barsnick <barsnick <at> gmx.net> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:01:35 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Concerning "--enable-ffplay": I just like to add that 
> > this should not be part of any sane configure line, it 
> > does NOT do what most people expect, ffplay is built 
> > if libsdl-devel is installed.
> 
> BTW, this is somewhat different from what I expect from 
> my experience with autoconf based configure scripts.

Yes, that's what I tried to explain: FFmpeg's configure 
script is not autoconf-based.

The important thing is that --enable-ffplay is mostly a 
debug option and should not be part of any user's 
configure line.

Carl Eugen



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