[Sumover-dev] Question about external checkouts

[Lassi Ylikojola]

Hi

Thank You Doug for info.

Not that this is related and propably not needed but have there been
any consideration of using scons or cmake and alike since this is
cross platform development.

I'm looking into those for myself for various reasons but don't have
an opinion yet..

Lassi

On 4/8/08, Douglas Kosovic <douglask at itee.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Lassi,
>
> > I was trying to compile mpeg4 branch and it seems that videolan.org
> > has moved to git and configure can not find x264 code. So I was
> > wondering how to check what out and where.
>
> I think SVN r650 of x264 as used by the configure script is equivalent
> to x264-snapshot-20070413-2245.tar.bz2 available from:
>
>   ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/
>
> I might be wrong, but I don't think the version of x264 is as fussy as that
> required for ffmpeg & swscaler.
>
> Doing the following in the vic dir (i.e in the same dir as the vic configure
> script) seems to work for me:
>
>   git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
>
> > Also configure script has commented out svn checkouts from
> > mplayerhq.hu revisions 7110 for ffmpeg and revision 21687 for
> > libswscale. Do these revisions still apply ?
>
> I'm still using those SVN versions. I noticed that they were commented out
> too.
>
> As I didn't want to be performing SVN checkouts when building from a SRPM, I
> bundle tarballs of ffmpeg, libswscale and x264 with the VIC SRPM I use for
> the Fedora AG RPMs.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
>