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Old October 11th 17, 08:50 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default How does my very first edited video (using Shotcut freeware)look?

Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:36:48 -0400, Paul wrote:

Right now, Zeranoe has both "nightly" builds and Release builds.
I tested a "nightly" a couple months ago, and it was broken.
Even though statically linked (in the static package), it was
missing DLL files. The "Release" version on the other hand,
was fine.


Many years ago in a place far away, the nightly builds of a different
product were for people who already had the product installed, so the
nightly builds intentionally left out the parts that hadn't changed
since the last stable release.

Is it the same here, by chance? That would explain the missing dlls.


But these builds are supposed to be "static".

The executable is pretty big, so all the dependencies
are statically linked (in effect, all the DLLs look to be
inside the EXE, based on the size). It should not ask
for DLLs if built properly.

When it start whining about DLLs, you could hunt down
the DLLs... but if you did, you'd be admitting to being
a "builder" yourself. And building FFMPEG is no small project.
I think I tried that once. I like them prebaked now :-)
I'm not afraid to build Firefox or Thunderbird or Chromium,
but FFMPEG is a *lot* of work. You spend hours looking
at ./configure, noting down all the dependencies that
have to be built and put in your tree. I can't imagine
what a living hell it would be, to do that for
Windows DLLs.

I think I might have had a moment of weakness, and
when I saw it ask for the first DLL, I almost went
off on a hunt to look for it. But when the program
asked for a couple more DLLs, I said "naw, I've
seen this movie before". And moved on to using
the release version.

Paul
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