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-Compilation on BeOS:
---------------------
-
-François Revol - revol@free.fr - July 2002
-
-The configure script should guess the configuration itself.
-Networking support is currently not finished.
-errno issues fixed by Andrew Bachmann.
-
-Old stuff:
-
-François Revol - revol@free.fr - April 2002
-
-The configure script should guess the configuration itself,
-however I still didn't tested building on net_server version of BeOS.
-
-ffserver is broken (needs poll() implementation).
-
-There is still issues with errno codes, which are negative in BeOs, and
-that ffmpeg negates when returning. This ends up turning errors into
-valid results, then crashes.
-(To be fixed)
-
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<HEAD>
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+<!-- Created by texi2html 1.56k from faq.texi on 19 November 2002 -->
<TITLE>FFmpeg FAQ</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<LI><A NAME="TOC4" HREF="faq.html#SEC4">1.3 I get audio/video synchro problems when grabbing.</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC5" HREF="faq.html#SEC5">1.4 How do I encode jpegs to another format ?</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC6" HREF="faq.html#SEC6">1.5 FFmpeg does not support codec XXX. Can you include a Windows DLL loader to support it ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC7" HREF="faq.html#SEC7">1.6 How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?</A>
</UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC7" HREF="faq.html#SEC7">2. Development</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC8" HREF="faq.html#SEC8">2. Development</A>
<UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC8" HREF="faq.html#SEC8">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC9" HREF="faq.html#SEC9">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC10" HREF="faq.html#SEC10">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC9" HREF="faq.html#SEC9">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC10" HREF="faq.html#SEC10">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC11" HREF="faq.html#SEC11">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A>
</UL>
</UL>
<P><HR><P>
-<H1><A NAME="SEC7" HREF="faq.html#TOC7">2. Development</A></H1>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC7" HREF="faq.html#TOC7">1.6 How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?</A></H2>
+
+<P>
+Use <TT>`-'</TT> as filename.
+
+
+
+
+<H1><A NAME="SEC8" HREF="faq.html#TOC8">2. Development</A></H1>
-<H2><A NAME="SEC8" HREF="faq.html#TOC8">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC9" HREF="faq.html#TOC9">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
<P>
No. Only GCC is supported. GCC is ported on most systems available and I
-<H2><A NAME="SEC9" HREF="faq.html#TOC9">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC10" HREF="faq.html#TOC10">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
<P>
No. Use <CODE>mingw-gcc</CODE> available at <A HREF="http://www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org/</A> to
-<H2><A NAME="SEC10" HREF="faq.html#TOC10">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC11" HREF="faq.html#TOC11">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A></H2>
<P>
No. These tools are too blowted and they complicate the build. Moreover,
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No. FFmpeg only supports open source codecs. Windows DLLs are not
portable, bloated and often slow.
+@section How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?
+
+Use @file{-} as filename.
+
@chapter Development
@section Can you support my C compiler XXX ?
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<HEAD>
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<TITLE>FFmpeg Documentation</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<LI><A NAME="TOC15" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC15">5.2 Video Codecs</A>
<LI><A NAME="TOC16" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC16">5.3 Audio Codecs</A>
</UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC17">6. Developpers Guide</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC17">6. Platform Specific information</A>
<UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC18">6.1 API</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC19">6.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC20">6.3 Coding Rules</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC21">6.4 Submitting patches</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC22">6.5 Regression tests</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC18">6.1 Linux</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC19">6.2 BSD</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC20">6.3 Windows</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC21">6.4 MacOS X</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC22">6.5 BeOS</A>
+</UL>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC23" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC23">7. Developpers Guide</A>
+<UL>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC24" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC24">7.1 API</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC25" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC25">7.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC26" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC26">7.3 Coding Rules</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC27" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC27">7.4 Submitting patches</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC28" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC28">7.5 Regression tests</A>
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</UL>
<P><HR><P>
<H2><A NAME="SEC11" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC11">3.6 Protocols</A></H2>
<P>
-The output file can be "-" to output to a pipe. This is only possible
-with mpeg1 and h263 formats.
+The filename can be <TT>`-'</TT> to read from the standard input or to write
+to the standard output.
<P>
-<H1><A NAME="SEC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC17">6. Developpers Guide</A></H1>
+<H1><A NAME="SEC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC17">6. Platform Specific information</A></H1>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC18">6.1 Linux</A></H2>
+
+<P>
+ffmpeg should be compiled with at least GCC 2.95.3. GCC 3.2 is the
+prefered compiler now for ffmpeg. All futur optimizations will depend on
+features only found in GCC 3.2.
+
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC19">6.2 BSD</A></H2>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC20">6.3 Windows</A></H2>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC21">6.4 MacOS X</A></H2>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC22">6.5 BeOS</A></H2>
+
+<P>
+The configure script should guess the configuration itself.
+Networking support is currently not finished.
+errno issues fixed by Andrew Bachmann.
+
+
+<P>
+Old stuff:
+
+
+<P>
+François Revol - revol at free dot fr - April 2002
+
+
+<P>
+The configure script should guess the configuration itself,
+however I still didn't tested building on net_server version of BeOS.
+
+
+<P>
+ffserver is broken (needs poll() implementation).
+
+
+<P>
+There is still issues with errno codes, which are negative in BeOs, and
+that ffmpeg negates when returning. This ends up turning errors into
+valid results, then crashes.
+(To be fixed)
+
+
+
+
+<H1><A NAME="SEC23" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC23">7. Developpers Guide</A></H1>
-<H2><A NAME="SEC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC18">6.1 API</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC24" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC24">7.1 API</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>libavcodec is the library containing the codecs (both encoding and
-<H2><A NAME="SEC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC19">6.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC25" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC25">7.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A></H2>
<P>
You can integrate all the source code of the libraries to link them
-<H2><A NAME="SEC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC20">6.3 Coding Rules</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC26" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC26">7.3 Coding Rules</A></H2>
<P>
ffmpeg is programmed in ANSI C language. GCC extensions are
-<H2><A NAME="SEC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC21">6.4 Submitting patches</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC27" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC27">7.4 Submitting patches</A></H2>
<P>
When you submit your patch, try to send a unified diff (diff '-u'
-<H2><A NAME="SEC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC22">6.5 Regression tests</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC28" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC28">7.5 Regression tests</A></H2>
<P>
Before submitting a patch (or commiting with CVS), you should at least
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@section Protocols
-The output file can be "-" to output to a pipe. This is only possible
-with mpeg1 and h263 formats.
+The filename can be @file{-} to read from the standard input or to write
+to the standard output.
ffmpeg handles also many protocols specified with the URL syntax.
@code{I} means that an integer only version is available too (ensures highest
performances on systems without hardware floating point support).
+@chapter Platform Specific information
+
+@section Linux
+
+ffmpeg should be compiled with at least GCC 2.95.3. GCC 3.2 is the
+prefered compiler now for ffmpeg. All futur optimizations will depend on
+features only found in GCC 3.2.
+
+@section BSD
+
+@section Windows
+
+@section MacOS X
+
+@section BeOS
+
+The configure script should guess the configuration itself.
+Networking support is currently not finished.
+errno issues fixed by Andrew Bachmann.
+
+Old stuff:
+
+François Revol - revol at free dot fr - April 2002
+
+The configure script should guess the configuration itself,
+however I still didn't tested building on net_server version of BeOS.
+
+ffserver is broken (needs poll() implementation).
+
+There is still issues with errno codes, which are negative in BeOs, and
+that ffmpeg negates when returning. This ends up turning errors into
+valid results, then crashes.
+(To be fixed)
+
@chapter Developpers Guide
@section API