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diff --git a/multimedia/ffmpeg/README b/multimedia/ffmpeg/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9de97875d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/multimedia/ffmpeg/README @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio +and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec +library. + +This script is tested using the svn code from 20071003, and this is +the tarball hosted on our site. You may elect to use this source +code to build the package, or you can pull the latest from their +subversion repository as indicated below. + +If you want to use the latest subversion source when building your +ffmpeg package, you will need to get it from their svn server. +To get the source code, you can use the included "ffmpeg-srctarball.sh" +script, which will to download the source code and create a compressed +tarball of it using the date (date +"%Y%m%d") as its version string. + +If you have already ffmpeg's source code as a tarball, for example: + ffmpeg-20071003.tar.bz2 +You can tell the build script to use it with the following command: + VERSION=20071003 ./ffmpeg.SlackBuild +Note that this is the version that will be used by default unless you +specify otherwise. + +ffmpeg requires the following, all of which are available at SlackBuilds.org: + lame, faac, faad2, xvidcore, a52dec, and x264 |