Re: Extension Proposal: Video Encoding using FFmpeg

Pierre Joye in php.pecl.dev (Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:47:29 +0200): >On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: >> 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: > >Which means it links against the default crt, which is sadly the VC6 >one, available by defatult on all windows install. True. But I do not see another possibility if you want to include libx264, except for exec() calls to ffmpeg.exe. If the FFmpeg API is straightforward that should not be a problem. The extension links to VC9 / VC11 libs that are created by dumpbin /exports, which enables the extension to call the publicly available functions of the libav*.dll's. A call to msvcrt.dll on the backend of the libav*.dll does not really matter, AFAIK. Jan