Re: Extension Proposal: Video Encoding using FFmpeg

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: > "Anatol Belski" in php.pecl.dev (Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:44:52 +0200): >>I would strongely discourage you from linking with the libraries built >>with MinGW. > > There is hardly any way to avoid that. The extension will only be > useable, if it produces at least MP4 (x264) output. This means ffmpeg > has to be compiled with x264 support. And you cannot compile libx264 > with native MSVC: > > https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/2011-May/008518.html > > The same accounts for many more libraries that are compiled into FFmpeg. > When you are on a Windows platform, there only is one rock-solid FFmpeg > implementation: Zeranoe's builds. > > Zeranoe's builds are cross-compiled on Linux, using MingGW-w64. > However, the DLL's are not dependent on any external cygwin-dll or > libgcc-dll, so they are pretty much self-contained. Which means it links against the default crt, which is sadly the VC6 one, available by defatult on all windows install. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org