[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] MinGW+FFmpeg survival guide

[aviad rozenhek]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:41, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala <at> poste.it> writes:
>
> > > > In particular I'm facing this issue when compiling FFmpeg+libsdl,
> > > > sdl-config/pkg-config return the -mwindows flag, which disables
> > > > logging to stderr, which is pretty annoying.
> > >
> > > Thank you, that is a very useful hint!
> >
> > Well so are you confirming that I'm not the only one facing the issue?
>
> Yes.
>
> > (and why nobody complained before?)
>
> Perhaps users believe (as I did) that this is a feature?
>
>
>
I use windows and don't think its a feature, in fact it's making ffplay a
lot less usefull for me.
good thing that zeranoe's builds http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ dont have
this "feature" on.