[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/general.texi: AviSynth+ works on Linux now, AvxSynth is gone.

Stephen Hutchinson qyot27 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 20:39:19 EET 2020


Related to this are the following changes:
* Mention the two methods that AviSynth+ provides for installing
  just the headers.
* Expand on users installing AviSynth on their system a little
  more.
---
This is the only patch that needed changes. I'll just ping the
other three.
 doc/general.texi | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi
index 3684847ac1..5f0f1b2ad1 100644
--- a/doc/general.texi
+++ b/doc/general.texi
@@ -50,16 +50,18 @@ This driver can be installed using amdgpu-pro-install script in official amd dri
 @section AviSynth
 
 FFmpeg can read AviSynth scripts as input. To enable support, pass
- at code{--enable-avisynth} to configure.  The correct headers are
-included in compat/avisynth/, which allows the user to enable support
-without needing to search for these headers themselves.
+ at code{--enable-avisynth} to configure after installing the headers
+provided by @url{https://github.com/AviSynth/AviSynthPlus, AviSynth+}.
+AviSynth+ can be configured to install only the headers by either
+passing `-DHEADERS_ONLY:bool=on` to the normal CMake-based build
+system, or by using the supplied @code{GNUmakefile}.
 
 For Windows, supported AviSynth variants are
 @url{http://avisynth.nl, AviSynth 2.6 RC1 or higher} for 32-bit builds and
 @url{http://avisynth.nl/index.php/AviSynth+, AviSynth+ r1718 or higher} for 32-bit and 64-bit builds.
 
-For Linux and OS X, the supported AviSynth variant is
- at url{https://github.com/avxsynth/avxsynth, AvxSynth}.
+For Linux, macOS, and BSD, the only supported AviSynth variant is
+ at url{https://github.com/AviSynth/AviSynthPlus, AviSynth+}, starting with version 3.5.
 
 @float NOTE
 In 2016, AviSynth+ added support for building with GCC. However, due to
@@ -77,10 +79,11 @@ GCC builds of AviSynth+ without any special flags.
 @end float
 
 @float NOTE
-AviSynth and AvxSynth are loaded dynamically.  Distributors can build FFmpeg
-with @code{--enable-avisynth}, and the binaries will work regardless of the
-end user having AviSynth or AvxSynth installed - they'll only need to be
-installed to use AviSynth scripts (obviously).
+AviSynth(+) is loaded dynamically.  Distributors can build FFmpeg
+with @code{--enable-avisynth}, and the binaries will work regardless
+of the end user having AviSynth installed.  If/when an end user
+would like to use AviSynth scripts, then they can install AviSynth(+)
+and FFmpeg will be able to find and use it to open scripts.
 @end float
 
 @section Chromaprint
-- 
2.20.1



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