Bug#203211: RFP: avidemux -- A small editing software for avi (especially DivX)

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 02.01.2012 16:53, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>
>> Does it nowadays work properly with the system libav, or does it still
>> require its internal copy? If the latter, then it's going to be a lot of
>> work to get it in shape.
>
>
> I haven't had a look at the source, but according to the 2.5.6 release notes
> they "Updated the FFmpeg libraries (version 0.9)". So this sounds like they
> still use an internal copy, but since it's recent enough, maybe it's not
> that hard to use the system libav headers and link against the system libs?

I've now found the time to look at how avidemux "uses" ffmpeg, but
unfortunately,
I have bad news:

avidemux specifically downloads an ffmpeg-0.9 tarball (we use libav in
debian), and
then applies a larger number of patches:
http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/avidemux/branches/avidemux_2.5_branch_gruntster/cmake/patches/

Most of those patches actually look pretty scary to me. Additionally, most
of the comments in those patches don't really make sense to me either.

I conclude that trying to link avidemux dynamically against the system
libavcodec
is not feasible. Shipping a static copy of avcodec and friends doesn't make me
feel too happy either :-/

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard