Windows XP compatible non-SSE2 FFmpeg binaries

[Reino]

Originally Posted by Scruff

The script I'm using is the one linked in Post#1

I understand, but I think you're using an old revision of 'cross_compile_ffmpeg.sh', because all the things you say don't work I have fixed long ago. Two days ago I've pushed a couple of changes for the latest round of binaries.

[Scruff]

You wouldn't read about it - I just downloaded the master.zip again and the last modified date for cross_compile_ffmpeg.sh is 7 Sep 2024.

The master I've been using I downloaded 5 days earlier on 2 Sep and the last modified date on cross_compile_ffmpeg.sh is 5 Sep 2023.

So you are right - the script I've been using is almost a year out of date! What a difference 5 days makes!

I'll have to start from scratch again.

Do you still have the master scripts for older versions? I assume all the dependencies and patches are specific to each version. Is that correct?

I'd like to be able to go back as far as 5.2 to experiment with some mods. Getting the source for old ffmpeg versions is easy, but not so much for all the correct dependencies.

[Reino]

Originally Posted by Scruff

The master I've been using I downloaded 5 days earlier on 2 Sep and the last modified date on cross_compile_ffmpeg.sh is 5 Sep 2023.

That's weird. That should've been 8 Jun 2024, my previous last commit. On the other hand, I use Git, so I don't know if such a tarball is updated after each and every commit I push.

Originally Posted by Scruff

Do you still have the master scripts for older versions?

This is the "master script".

Originally Posted by Scruff

I assume all the dependencies and patches are specific to each version. Is that correct?

No. With each new round (every 4 months) I do update my local FFmpeg repo to a specific commit (the latest at that moment though), and its patches are tailored to that revision, but all the dependencies (the git-repos at least) are always the latest revision at that moment. Unless specified otherwise.

In fact, I've used the same revisions of all the dependencies for the binaries I've uploaded for you ('ffmpeg-6.2-609-238f9de-[...]_Scruff.7z') as I did for ffmpeg-7.1-2362-6aafe61. I haven't encountered any problems.
The other differences between the ffmpeg-6.2-609-238f9de binaries begin this year and this one are that this one has the drawtext filter (obviously) and libfdk-aac enabled.

Originally Posted by Scruff

I'd like to be able to go back as far as 5.2 to experiment with some mods. Getting the source for old ffmpeg versions is easy, but not so much for all the correct dependencies.

Good luck with that!
What are you trying to achieve?