Compiling ffmpeg on Mac OS 10.15

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Compiling minimal FFMPEG on Mac OS 10.15

Recording my steps to build minimal ffmpeg on September 1, 2020.

I mostly followed steps at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/macOS

1. Clone repo & checkout release tag (we're building release v4.3.1)

~$ git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
~$ cd ffmpeg
~/ffmpeg$ git checkout n4.3.1

2. Install brew dependencies

~/ffmpeg$ brew install automake fdk-aac git lame libass libtool libvorbis libvpx \
opus sdl shtool texi2html theora wget x264 x265 xvid nasm

3. Prepare output folders

~/ffmpeg$ mkdir -p output/bin

4. Configure with vpx

~/ffmpeg$ ./configure --prefix=$PWD/output \
                      --pkg-config-flags="--static" \
                      --bindir=$PWD/output/bin \
                      --disable-everything \
                      --enable-ffmpeg \
                      --enable-protocol=pipe \
                      --enable-protocol=file \
                      --enable-parser=mjpeg \
                      --enable-decoder=mjpeg \
                      --enable-demuxer=image2pipe \
                      --enable-filter=pad \
                      --enable-filter=crop \
                      --enable-filter=scale \
                      --enable-muxer=webm \
                      --enable-encoder=libvpx_vp8 \
                      --enable-libvpx \
                      --enable-static

5. Make & install to the output/bin

~/ffmpeg$ make && make install