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| author | rathann <rathann@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2006-09-19 00:08:18 +0000 |
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| committer | rathann <rathann@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2006-09-19 00:08:18 +0000 |
| commit | 00b387f798abfe27883e0ef831f8820eacb649ef (patch) | |
| tree | 52ace90ee87008690a02becf00f5a37612e48d33 /DOCS | |
| parent | 65fe2f6fcce497a149af541580010b7ec67814dc (diff) | |
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Allow shared libavcodec, but explain the implications.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@19905 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt b/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt index f5786059b4..71a19295e2 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt @@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ documentation. Translated versions SHOULD be included, even if your package management system does not provide specific support for internationalization. -Libavcodec MUST always be in the latest development version and it MUST +Libavcodec MUST always be in the latest development version and it SHOULD be linked statically into the mplayer binary, because MPlayer requires a -recent libavcodec snapshot. While some distributions provide FFmpeg -packages containing a shared libavcodec library, they are often based on the -last "release" version of FFmpeg, which is quite old and will usually not -function correctly with MPlayer. +recent libavcodec snapshot. It is acceptable to use a shared (again, recent) +version of libavcodec, but you must be aware that this disables some of +MPlayer's functions (for example, some postprocessing filters) and sacrifices +speed. Support for binary codecs SHOULD be present to the extent that the combination of operating system and CPU architecture permits, but it MUST NOT result in a |