The ease of downloading precompiled binaries.

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 5 March 2018 at 06:35, Michael wrote:
> On 2018-03-04, at 8:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>> The current version of the ffmpeg port will not compile. And apparently the bug report is four months old.
>>
>> There are 28 open tickets about ffmpeg... which one are you referring to?
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55198

Btw: I noticed that the user tried to install ffmpeg universally. Are
you doing an universal build of ffmpeg as well? Which version of macOS
are you using?

For me ffmpeg built without problems on the latest OS.

The problem you have with "ffmprobe" is there just because you
probably have an older version of ffmpeg activated, while you have the
latest version of x264. It makes absolutely no sense to try
recursively activate older versions of all the ports you might have
problems with. You should (with our help) figure out how to fix the
build problem with the latest version of ffmpeg.

You should run "sudo port clean --all", then check "port installed"
and make sure that you have the latest version of everything (that you
didn't end up activating a large number of old versions of ports),
then post the output of "port outdated" and the log of "sudo port -v
install ffmpeg" to the ticket you think is relevant.

Mojca