From 17a0750b8bd50cef8f7e222a7364ad72e61a1ce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julien BLACHE Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:44:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about ffmpeg --- INSTALL | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f7b8b60b..b282ee40 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Libraries: - libantlr3c (ANTLR3 C runtime, version 3.2 for tarball builds) - Avahi client libraries, 0.6.24 minimum - sqlite3 3.5.0+ with update notify API enabled - - ffmpeg + - ffmpeg 0.5+ - confuse - libevent 1.4+ - libavl @@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ always the case, so you may need to rebuild sqlite3 to enable the update notify API. See the sqlite3 doc and look for SQLITE_ENABLE_UPDATE_NOTIFY. +Note about ffmpeg +----------------- + +ffmpeg is a central piece of forked-daapd and most other FLOSS multimedia +applications. The version of ffmpeg you use will potentially have a great +influence on your experience with forked-daapd. + +The following versions of ffmpeg are supported and known to work: + - ffmpeg 0.5.x: has issues with metadata (tags) extraction, notably with + MP3 files and ID3 tags in general; + - ffmpeg 0.6.x: known to work better with regard to metadata extraction + + Building from the git tree --------------------------