Building FFMPEG

Been on in all easter days, it pulls in so many different applications, codecs, drivers and whatnot.
Just imagine, the temporary build path contains more than 500mb of data, compared to the final binary of ffmpeg, which is not even 500kb in size when done.

Yesterday evening i was finaly able to build the (my) first ffmpeg.
Today when i wanted to redo it, starting with 0, figured many of the build steps got accidently optimized for rerunning, which means, some of the parameters for the first 'contact' got removed and have to be readded.

Eventhouth its a smaller script, about 700 lines of code, not beeing familiar with the building process of that many applications is not a small challenge.

But i just encoded my first x265 video last night, and i have to say, the quality is great, eveb more when comparing to the filesize.

That was a good motivator, to keep me going for the still missing (failing) things, such as, but not limited to:

• vorbis
• webp
• v4l
• ass
• srt
• rtmp
• speex
• wav
• dc1394

Once it does what i want, this script will be part of VHS, as its a handler for ffmpeg it makes sense to let it build the tools it depends on.

I'll keep you posted :)