Ffmpeg on Fulong

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Introduction

OK... so I was looking for things to do with the Fulong, so I headed over to Freshmeat and found something that interested me, namely a program called Clive.

Building

Well, reading up on this thing a bit more, it turns out that one of the options for it is to push the files through ffmpeg and urlgrabber in order to reencode them. urlgrabber is just a python script, so no big deal there, but I needed ffmpeg.

It turns out that ffmpeg is only available via svn (i.e. Subversion), and of course the Fulong doesn't have THAT installed. So now I have to install Subversion. Welcome to dependency hell. Subversion in turn requires apr and apr-util, both of which are parts of the Apache Portable Runtime. So I go and grab those. apr compiles and installs without problem with a simple configure and make. apr-util required a bit more finesse on the configure line because it depended on apr: 

./configure --with-apr=/home/src/apr-1.2.12

OK, so we have the dependencies of subversion down. Now to build subversion. Of course, a bit more finessing on the configure line is involved here: 

./configure --with-apr=/home/src/apr-1.2.12 --with-apr-util=/home/src/apr-util-1.2.12
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