[FFmpeg-user] Installing on Snow Leopard 10.6.8

[Pavel Koshevoy]

On Nov 4, 2016 3:20 PM, "Joel Lopez" <badassmexican at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm stuck with some older machines that we can't upgrade because of
> software we have on them.  Is it possible to install FFMPEG on OSX
> 10.6.8?
>
> I've tried brew and I got errors with git.  I manually installed git
> and got around it.  Now I'm getting stuck on Yasm.  I've manually
> installed it but it doesn't get past the error.
>
> brew install ffmpeg
>
> Warning: You are using macOS 10.6.
>
> We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
>
> You may encounter build failures or other breakages.

You may have better luck with macports -- I use that instead of brew on OSX
10.5 ... 10.12.  I am pretty sure they support even older versions