[FFmpeg-user] Failing to build ffmpeg with ffplay support

[Jim Worrall]

I think my earlier post didn’t go out, but sorry for double posting if it did.

On Mac OS X, I suggest you install all the ffmpeg dependencies, including sdl, using homebrew.  It is very easy.  This is a huge convenience as some of the packages are very difficult to compile. Just install homebrew and let it do it’s magic.   For example, the initial command I used after installing homebrew is:

brew install libogg libvorbis libgsm libvpx fdk-aac lame libass orc xvid yasm pkg-config x264 x265 sdl

Then just build ffmpeg the usual way with the options you want.

And you can update all the packages at once with simply 'brew upgrade'.

> On 2015 Sep 17, at 8:53 AM, 桃源老師 <xanadu6291 at dream.jp> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 2015/09/12 0:33 A.M. Robert Krüger <krueger <at> lesspain.de> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos <at> ag.or.at> wrote:
>> 
>>> Robert Krüger <krueger <at> lesspain.de> writes:
>>> 
>>>> It may be that ffplay for OSX is currently not
>>>> available.
>>> 
>>> I think this is not correct:
>>> https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/
>>> (It also failed for me but I didn't try
>>> very hard.)
>>> 
>>> 
>> Yes, I found that but did they specify which OSX version they built on? I
>> didn't see that on the page.
> 
> It might be out-dated post...
> 
> I can compile SDL 1.2.15 on Mac OS X 10.10.5 and this procedure might be valid on after Mac OS X 10.9...
> 
> You need to patch SDL 1.2.15 to build on Mac OS X 10.9 and after.  
> There are two patch.  But if you build SDL without X11 support, you need former one only:
> 
> no-CGDirectPaletteRef.patch:
> http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/macports/release/ports/devel/libsdl/files/no-CGDirectPaletteRef.patch
> 
> sdl_x11sym.patch:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36179?getfile=10749
> 
> $ cd SDL-1.2.15/
> $ patch -u -p0 < no-CGDirectPaletteRef.patch
> $ patch -u -p0 < sdl_x11sym.patch
> 
> I have bookmarked the blog which explains the reason why we need those patch, but now that page can't accessible.  So the reason have lost from my poor brain... ;-(
> 
> I have ffplay build instruction blog in Japanese:
> 
> for ffmpeg ffprobe: http://xanadu62.blogspot.com/2013/10/ffmpeg.html
> 
> for ffplay: http://xanadu62.blogspot.jp/2014/11/ffplay.html
> 
> Hope google translator will help you...
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> // Miya aka. TougenRoushi
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