[mythtv] Compiling against external ffmpeg

[Janne Grunau]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:32:38PM +0100, Allan Stirling wrote:
> Matthew Grant wrote:
> > I just want to do this crazy stuff to test ffmpeg-mt.  Is there a
> 
> There is no way to link against an external ffmpeg. The 
> internal ffmpeg is fairly highly modified - An ffmpeg sync 
> is not a trivial process.

mythtv wouldn't even compile if external ffmpeg since the api is
modified.

> I believe that Janne was going to be looking at this 
> sometime post-merge.

I already tried it pre-merge and it doesn't work yet. There are more
changes necessary than just merging the ffmpeg-mt changes in.

Janne