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| 60 | <h1 class="chapter"> 1. General Problems </h1>
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| 80 | <h2 class="section"> 1.1 I cannot read this file although this format seems to be supported by ffmpeg. </h2>
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| 82 | <p>Even if ffmpeg can read the file format, it may not support all its
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| 83 | codecs. Please consult the supported codec list in the ffmpeg
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| 104 | <h2 class="section"> 1.2 How do I encode JPEGs to another format ? </h2>
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| 106 | <p>If the JPEGs are named img1.jpg, img2.jpg, img3.jpg,..., use:
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| 108 | <table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="example"> ffmpeg -i img%d.jpg /tmp/a.mpg
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| 110 | <p><samp>`%d'</samp> is replaced by the image number.
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| 112 | <p><tt>`img%03d.jpg'</tt> generates <tt>`img001.jpg'</tt>, <tt>`img002.jpg'</tt>, etc...
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| 113 | </p>
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| 114 | <p>The same system is used for the other image formats.
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| 134 | <h2 class="section"> 1.3 FFmpeg does not support codec XXX. Can you include a Windows DLL loader to support it ? </h2>
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| 136 | <p>No. FFmpeg only supports open source codecs. Windows DLLs are not
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| 137 | portable, bloated and often slow.
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| 157 | <h2 class="section"> 1.4 Why do I see a slight quality degradation with multithreaded MPEG* encoding ? </h2>
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| 159 | <p>For multithreaded MPEG* encoding, the encoded slices must be independent,
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| 160 | otherwise thread n would practically have to wait for n-1 to finish, so it's
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| 161 | quite logical that there is a small reduction of quality. This is not a bug.
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| 181 | <h2 class="section"> 1.5 How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ? </h2>
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| 183 | <p>Use <tt>`-'</tt> as filename.
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| 203 | <h2 class="section"> 1.6 Why does ffmpeg not decode audio in VOB files ? </h2>
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| 204 |
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| 205 | <p>The audio is AC3 (a.k.a. A/52). AC3 decoding is an optional component in ffmpeg
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| 206 | as the component that handles AC3 decoding (liba52) is currently released under
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| 207 | the GPL. If you have liba52 installed on your system, enable AC3 decoding
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| 208 | with <code>./configure --enable-a52</code>. Take care: by
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| 209 | enabling AC3, you automatically change the license of libavcodec from
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| 210 | LGPL to GPL.
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| 230 | <h2 class="section"> 1.7 Which codecs are supported by Windows ? </h2>
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| 232 | <p>Windows does not support standard formats like MPEG very well, unless you
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| 233 | install some additional codecs
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| 234 | </p>
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| 235 | <p>The following list of video codecs should work on most Windows systems:
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| 237 | <dt> <samp>`msmpeg4v2'</samp></dt>
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| 238 | <dd><p>.avi/.asf
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| 248 | </p></dd>
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| 249 | <dt> <samp>`mpeg4'</samp></dt>
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| 250 | <dd><p>only if you have some MPEG-4 codec installed like ffdshow or XviD
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| 251 | </p></dd>
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| 252 | <dt> <samp>`mpeg1'</samp></dt>
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| 253 | <dd><p>.mpg only
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| 254 | </p></dd>
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| 256 | <p>Note, ASF files often have .wmv or .wma extensions in Windows. It should also
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| 257 | be mentioned that Microsoft claims a patent on the ASF format, and may sue
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| 258 | or threaten users who create ASF files with non-Microsoft software. It is
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| 259 | strongly advised to avoid ASF where possible.
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| 260 | </p>
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| 261 | <p>The following list of audio codecs should work on most Windows systems:
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| 262 | </p><dl compact="compact">
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| 263 | <dt> <samp>`adpcm_ima_wav'</samp></dt>
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| 264 | <dt> <samp>`adpcm_ms'</samp></dt>
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| 265 | <dt> <samp>`pcm'</samp></dt>
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| 266 | <dt> <samp>`mp3'</samp></dt>
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| 267 | <dd><p>if some MP3 codec like LAME is installed
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| 289 | <h2 class="section"> 1.8 Why does the chrominance data seem to be sampled at a different time from the luminance data on bt8x8 captures on Linux? </h2>
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| 291 | <p>This is a well-known bug in the bt8x8 driver. For 2.4.26 there is a patch at
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| 292 | (<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/bttv-420-2.4.26.patch">http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/bttv-420-2.4.26.patch</a>). This may also
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| 313 | <h2 class="section"> 1.9 How do I avoid the ugly aliasing artifacts in bt8x8 captures on Linux? </h2>
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| 315 | <p>Pass 'combfilter=1 lumafilter=1' to the bttv driver. Note though that 'combfilter=1'
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| 316 | will cause somewhat too strong filtering. A fix is to apply (<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/bttv-comb-2.4.26.patch">http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/bttv-comb-2.4.26.patch</a>)
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| 317 | or (<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/bttv-comb-2.6.6.patch">http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/bttv-comb-2.6.6.patch</a>)
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| 338 | <h2 class="section"> 1.10 I have a problem with an old version of ffmpeg; where should I report it? </h2>
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| 339 | <p>Nowhere. Upgrade to the latest release or if there is no recent release upgrade
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| 340 | to Subversion HEAD. You could also try to report it. Maybe you will get lucky and
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| 341 | become the first person in history to get an answer different from "upgrade
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| 342 | to Subversion HEAD".
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| 362 | <h2 class="section"> 1.11 -f jpeg doesn't work. </h2>
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| 364 | <p>Try '-f image -img jpeg test%d.jpg'.
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| 384 | <h2 class="section"> 1.12 Why can I not change the framerate? </h2>
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| 386 | <p>Some codecs, like MPEG-1/2, only allow a small number of fixed framerates.
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| 407 | <h2 class="section"> 1.13 ffmpeg does not work; What is wrong? </h2>
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| 409 | <p>Try a 'make distclean' in the ffmpeg source directory. If this does not help see
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| 410 | (<a href="http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.php">http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.php</a>).
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| 430 | <h2 class="section"> 1.14 How do I encode XviD or DivX video with ffmpeg? </h2>
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| 432 | <p>Both XviD and DivX (version 4+) are implementations of the ISO MPEG-4
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| 433 | standard (note that there are many other coding formats that use this
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| 434 | same standard). Thus, use '-vcodec mpeg4' to encode these formats. The
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| 435 | default fourcc stored in an MPEG-4-coded file will be 'FMP4'. If you want
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| 436 | a different fourcc, use the '-vtag' option. E.g., '-vtag xvid' will
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| 437 | force the fourcc 'xvid' to be stored as the video fourcc rather than the
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| 458 | <h2 class="section"> 1.15 How do I encode videos which play on the iPod? </h2>
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| 462 | <dd><p>-acodec aac -vcodec mpeg4 width<=320 height<=240
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| 468 | <dd><p>B-frames
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| 470 | <dt> <samp>`example command line'</samp></dt>
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| 471 | <dd><p>ffmpeg -i input -acodec aac -ab 128 -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200 -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title X output.mp4
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| 493 | <h2 class="section"> 1.16 How do I encode videos which play on the PSP? </h2>
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| 497 | <dd><p>-acodec aac -vcodec mpeg4 width*height<=76800 width%16=0 height%16=0 -ar 24000 -r 30000/1001 or 15000/1001 -f psp
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| 503 | <dd><p>B-frames
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| 504 | </p></dd>
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| 505 | <dt> <samp>`example command line'</samp></dt>
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| 506 | <dd><p>ffmpeg -i input -acodec aac -ab 128 -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200 -ar 24000 -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 368x192 -r 30000/1001 -title X -f psp output.mp4
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| 507 | </p></dd>
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| 508 | <dt> <samp>`needed stuff for H.264'</samp></dt>
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| 509 | <dd><p>-acodec aac -vcodec h264 width*height<=76800 width%16=0? height%16=0? -ar 48000 -coder 1 -r 30000/1001 or 15000/1001 -f psp
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| 510 | </p></dd>
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| 511 | <dt> <samp>`working stuff for H.264'</samp></dt>
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| 512 | <dd><p>title, loop filter
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| 513 | </p></dd>
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| 514 | <dt> <samp>`non-working stuff for H.264'</samp></dt>
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| 515 | <dd><p>CAVLC
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| 516 | </p></dd>
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| 517 | <dt> <samp>`example command line'</samp></dt>
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| 518 | <dd><p>ffmpeg -i input -acodec aac -ab 128 -vcodec h264 -b 1200 -ar 48000 -mbd 2 -coder 1 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 368x192 -r 30000/1001 -title X -f psp -flags loop -trellis 2 -partitions parti4x4+parti8x8+partp4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 output.mp4
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| 540 | <h1 class="chapter"> 2. Development </h1>
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| 560 | <h2 class="section"> 2.1 When will the next FFmpeg version be released? / Why are FFmpeg releases so few and far between? </h2>
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| 587 | <h2 class="section"> 2.2 Why doesn't FFmpeg support feature [xyz]? </h2>
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| 589 | <p>Because no one has taken on that task yet. FFmpeg development is
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| 590 | driven by the tasks that are important to the individual developers.
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| 591 | If there is a feature that is important to you, the best way to get
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| 613 | <h2 class="section"> 2.3 Are there examples illustrating how to use the FFmpeg libraries, particularly libavcodec and libavformat ? </h2>
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| 614 |
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| 615 | <p>Yes. Read the Developers Guide of the FFmpeg documentation. Alternatively,
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| 616 | examine the source code for one of the many open source projects that
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| 617 | already incorporate ffmpeg at (<a href="projects.php">projects.php</a>).
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| 637 | <h2 class="section"> 2.4 Can you support my C compiler XXX ? </h2>
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| 638 |
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| 639 | <p>No. Only GCC is supported. GCC is ported to most systems available and there
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| 640 | is no need to pollute the source code with <code>#ifdef</code>s
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| 660 | </tr></table>
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| 661 | <h2 class="section"> 2.5 Can I use FFmpeg or libavcodec under Windows ? </h2>
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| 662 |
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| 663 | <p>Yes, but the MinGW tools <em>must</em> be used to compile FFmpeg. You
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| 664 | can link the resulting DLLs with any other Windows program. Read the
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| 665 | <em>Native Windows Compilation</em> and <em>Visual C++ compatibility</em>
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| 666 | sections in the FFmpeg documentation to find more information.
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| 686 | <h2 class="section"> 2.6 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ? </h2>
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| 688 | <p>No. These tools are too bloated and they complicate the build. Moreover,
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| 689 | since only <samp>`gcc'</samp> is supported they would add little advantages in
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| 690 | terms of portability.
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| 710 | <h2 class="section"> 2.7 Why not rewrite ffmpeg in object-oriented C++ ? </h2>
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| 711 |
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| 712 | <p>ffmpeg is already organized in a highly modular manner and does not need to
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| 713 | be rewritten in a formal object language. Further, many of the developers
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| 714 | favor straight C; it works for them. For more arguments on this matter,
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| 715 | read "Programming Religion" at (<a href="http://lkml.org/faq/lkmlfaq-15.html">http://lkml.org/faq/lkmlfaq-15.html</a>).
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| 716 | </p>
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| 735 | <h2 class="section"> 2.8 Why are the ffmpeg programs devoid of debugging symbols ? </h2>
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| 736 |
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| 737 | <p>The build process creates ffmpeg_g, ffplay_g, etc. which contain full debug
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| 738 | information. Those binaries are strip'd to create ffmpeg, ffplay, etc. If
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| 739 | you need the debug information, used the *_g versions.
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| 759 | <h2 class="section"> 2.9 I do not like the LGPL, can I contribute code under the GPL instead ? </h2>
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| 760 |
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| 761 | <p>Yes, as long as the code is optional and can easily and cleanly be placed
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| 762 | under #ifdef CONFIG_GPL without breaking anything. So for example a new codec
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| 763 | or filter would be OK under GPL while a bugfix to LGPL code would not.
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| 783 | <h2 class="section"> 2.10 I want to compile xyz.c alone but my compiler produced many errors. </h2>
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| 784 |
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| 785 | <p>Common code is in its own files in libav* and is used by the individual
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| 786 | codecs. They will not work without the common parts, you have to compile
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| 787 | the whole libav*. If you wish, disable some parts with configure switches.
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| 788 | You can also try to hack it and remove more, but if you had problems fixing
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| 789 | the compilation failure then you are probably not qualified for this.
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| 809 | <h2 class="section"> 2.11 Visual C++ produces many errors. </h2>
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| 810 |
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| 811 | <p>Visual C++ is not compliant to the C standard and does not support
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| 812 | the inline assembly used in FFmpeg.
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| 813 | If you wish - for whatever weird reason - to use Visual C++ for your
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| 814 | project then you can link the Visual C++ code with libav* as long as
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| 815 | you compile the latter with a working C compiler. For more information, see
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| 816 | the <em>Visual C++ compatibility</em> section in the FFmpeg documentation.
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| 817 | </p>
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| 818 | <p>There have been efforts to make FFmpeg compatible with Visual C++ in the
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| 821 | work with Visual C++ and thus this item is low priority. Should you find
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| 842 | <h2 class="section"> 2.12 I have a file in memory / a API different from *open/*read/ libc how do i use it with libavformat ? </h2>
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| 855 | <h1>About This Document</h1>
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