[ITP] ffmpeg (5.1.2)

[Jon Turney]

On 20/01/2023 10:35, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I would like to propose new package ffmpeg which is
> well known audio/video tool. ffmpeg is ported to
> many linux distributions and other unix like systems
> as well as widows. Since there is windows build,
> the demand of cygwin port might be relatively small,
> however its libraries are usefull for other softwares.
> 
> I have posted another ITP for MOC (Music On Console)
> which is a ncurses based music player, whose plugin
> uses ffmpeg libraries.
> 
> I have already prepared the ffmpeg package as follows.
> 
> https://tyan0.yr32.net/cygwin/x86_64/release/ffmpeg/
> 
> To build ffmpeg, other new packages i.e., x264, x265 and
> xvidcore are required, I have proposed ITP at the same
> time.

Thanks!

For a long time, ffmpeg was not included in Fedora, due to concerns 
about codec patents, but those issues seem to have been resolved.

Can you please investigate what configuration is used in Fedora, and 
what the effects of matching that would be?