Re: The ease of downloading precompiled binaries.

On 2018-03-04, at 8:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> The current version of the ffmpeg port will not compile. And apparently the >> bug report is four months old. > > There are 28 open tickets about ffmpeg... which one are you referring to?

Re: The ease of downloading precompiled binaries.

Checking my installed versions of x264, I see that libx264.148.dylib comes from x264 @20161201. The fact that this library keeps changing a version in its filename, and that ffmpeg links against it with that specific name, are really attributes of x264 and ffmpeg, not the way MacPorts handles

Re: The ease of downloading precompiled binaries.

On 2018-03-04, at 10:41 AM, David Strubbe wrote: > I'm not sure what you saying here. MacPorts only ever links against the > current version of a library. Why don't you explain what kind of problem you > are having here, and perhaps we can help more? bash-3.2# ffprobe

Re: The ease of downloading precompiled binaries.

On Mar 04 10:19:51, keybou...@gmail.com wrote: > I was able to download a precompiled binary for ffmpeg, and ffprobe. > In both cases, it was a single file. In both cases it just worked. Good. > Right now, trying to deal with a current version that won't compile, Current version of what?