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by r0ckarong 876 days ago
The compiler has been thinking about the answer for a few decades ...
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Before I found out that statically compiled ffmpeg was a thing, I was trying to compile ffmpeg on a 2010 Mac.

It was a multi-day process and every time like two days in I'd hit some snag.

Not our problem, we just need to write the feature request ;)

But yes, perhaps as a follow-up, we would need to ask for

1. a speed-up of the process or

2. find a way to look up and redistribute existing conversion flows