Re: [Ekiga-list] ship ekiga with static ffmpeg and x264 libs?

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 16/12/10 16:48, Gerhard Stengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> H263 and H263+ codecs have been broken in ekiga for quite a while (maybe a year?) due to API changes in ffmpeg and x264.
> I don't know if these codecs will work again with the upcoming 3.3. release, but they're really quite important for me.

They do not.

> To avoid these kinds of problems in the future, wouldn't it feasible to ship the required ffmpeg and x264 version with
> ekiga and link in these libs statically? Or it could be a compile option to use the shipped ffmpeg version or link
> dynamically to what is installed on the system.

For Windows it is already the case.  For gnu/linux, ekiga is provided by 
distributors, where these codecs are skipped.  Maybe we should 
create/distribute a static ekiga with correct ffmpeg which work on all 
distributions?  Do you have knowledge on how to do it?

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Eugen