MP4Box Fink Package

I created a Fink package for MP4Box, the multimedia packager from the GPAC project. MP4Box can be used for manipulating (e.g. muxing, demuxing) multimedia files such as MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, TS, ...

To add this package to your Fink tree, simply download both mp4box.info and mp4box.patch, and move these files to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo. After this is done, you should be able to fink install mp4box. Because this package is not in the official repository, you will need to select `Retry using next mirror set "sourceforge" ' when Fink fails to download the package.

Note that this package isn't ready for submitting to the main Fink repository yet for a couple of reasons:

  • The GPAC configure script doesn't allow to disable inclusion of external libraries statically. As such, it might be that GPAC links in libraries present on your system. This isn't really a problem in practice, but should be resolved for clean builds.
  • The MP4Box package file builds the GPAC library, and statically links the MP4Box binary against this. A better approach would be to provide a real package for the GPAC library, and add all the other utilities to this package as well.
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