Re: FFmpeg bundling exception for XBMC
Ken Dreyer wrote:
Alex Lancaster recently pointed out that XBMC upstream has
completely
removed the option to use an external FFmpeg.
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/4005
Then it needs to be patched to revert these commits, or parts of them. It
shall be noted that it is NOT necessary to use their "DLL loader"
(presumably a cross-platform wrapper around dlopen) to load FFmpeg (the main
stuff they removed), it is enough to link the system shared library
directly. So the actual CODE does not need to be any different than for
static linking, only the build setup needs to link the shared library.
Kevin Kofler