patching ffmpeg on windows

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  • ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers

    Helper script for cross compiling some media tools for windows, like customizable ffmpeg.exe (with or without non-free components, etc), and some other bonuses like mplayer, mp4box, mxf, etc.

  • I've run into this situation myself, and in order to generate a version of the ffmpeg executable with the change I wanted I used VirtualBox to spin up a virtual linux machine, and then used https://github.com/rdp/ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers this script to build a new binary (adding in the diff patch at the appropriate point). It's an informative process, you learn a lot about how software is taken from source code into something usable, but if you're new to that world I wouldn't recommend taking it lightly. It took me a few solid days of work before I had a binary I could actually use.

  • media-autobuild_suite

    This Windows Batchscript helps setup a Mingw-w64 compiler environment for building ffmpeg and other media tools under Windows.

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