[MEncoder-users] ffmpeg 0.9 Difficulties (was: How to transcode MTS files recorded by Panasonic HDC-SD100 camera?)

[R.L. Horn]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Are you sure you did "svn up && ./configure && make"?)

C'mon, don't try to teach your grandma how to suck eggs.  Of course I got 
new mplayer sources.  I started over from scratch, in fact, because the 
old ones wouldn't update (it had been a while).

It was pretty obvious that the problem was mine (such a gross defect 
simply couldn't go unnoticed).  Reminded of the whole business, I went 
back and had another go (mplayer r34734).  Same thing.  As it turns out, 
my gcc was just too darned old to build the newest ffmpeg.  Using 
gcc-4.6.2 worked like a charm.

I reckon I'll make a lukewarm-priority bug report about it, but I somehow 
doubt that anyone's going to be too concerned.

>> then, eventually, managed to make it work by building against
>> the old 0.9 release.
>
> This is not supported and ...
>
>> Even then, I had to correct some nonsensical #ifdefs in the
>> ffmpeg source.
>
> will most certainly break soon without allowing such an easy fix.

I'm not suggesting that anyone else do it, just saying what happened.

Look -- all of this is over a, largely inconsequential, aside.  The only 
point I was trying, unsuccessfully it seems, to get across in the first 
place is that it's almost certainly not a good idea yet to get the latest 
ffmpeg and simply do a "./configure && make && make install" because you 
likely still need a 0.6 or 0.7 version to build other things.