[FFmpeg-user] Minimum configuration settings for ffprobe-only

[Eugene Gekhter]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Eugene Gekhter <egekhter <at> pixcel.com> writes:
>
> > What would be the recommended configuration
> > settings if all that was required was to build
> > ffprobe for the sole purpose of determining if
> > ffmpeg can decode the input files?
>
> Apart from what James wrote (which is 100% correct):
> Why do you think ffprobe knows what kind of files
> ffmpeg can decode?
>
> Carl Eugen
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I would guess because all the decoding libraries are dependencies?