Hi Xavier,
The conversation with Fedora was in an email conversation. For lack of a better place,
I've put the conversation here for review:
https://gist.github.com/knnniggett/87962ab97a6ffbc139083b07d0522231
I'll ping Chuck regarding this conversation so we can get him into it if needed.
ZoneMinder searches for and links against ffmpeg & vlc headers, if it finds them,
during build time. Adding ffmpeg/vlc after the fact doesn't work currently because
these get flagged as not present during the build. Consequently, the code, which makes the
api calls to those libraries, will not be present in any of zoneminder's executables.
I don't currently know of a simple way to separate zoneminder into the pieces
requiring h264 and the pieces that do not. Perhaps there is something I am not thinking of
at the moment so feel free to continue the conversation.
I didn't mean to overstate my sponsorship with Fedora. It was more of a casual
"hey I'll sponsor you if you need sponsorship" sort of thing. I'm
learning this as I go, and I'm just beginning to get involved with EPEL, Fedora, and
RPMFusion.