[MPlayer-users] feature request: have configure checkout ffmpeg "by default" from github http
Roger Pack
rogerdpack2 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 22:41:05 CET 2012
On 11/26/12, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:15:44AM -0700, Roger Pack wrote:
>> feature request: do a git clone "by default" like this:
>> $ git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git ffmpeg
>
> I think this is not an official FFmpeg repository.
> Also, using http is supposedly less efficient.
With later git versions, it's not much more inefficient.
> It might be better to only provide better instructions
> how to put your own FFmpeg checkout there.
Or possibly just download last night's ffmpeg snapshot:
http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
Instructions for http (when the initial git clone fails) might be handy too.
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