[OSX-Users] Re: mac tool to convert video to .flv

[Chris Andrews]

On 5 Aug 2010, at 16:24, Philip Boulain <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 05/08/2010 15:07, Daniel Thorpe wrote:
>> I do however recommend using homebrew http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew which is a package manage for OS X, which is so much better than Fink and MacPorts...
> 
> Since the problem with Fink and MacPorts has been the needless redundancy of there being two open-source package managers for OS X and the resulting dilution of maintenance effort meaning that they alternate over which one is unusable outdated or broken in any given year, I'm not sure how adding a third competitor helps the situation.

Certainly don't attempt to install ffmpeg from MacPorts - last time I tried that, it told me I had to install 45 dependencies, including an old version of Perl. I went the way of building by hand and locating the required libraries when the installer complained. Fink I haven't used for years because they went about a year without updating it after OS X 10.5 came out, IIRC.

Chris