[FFmpeg-devel] ffprobe as library rather than CLI

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 12.05.2021 15:19, Samuel Marks wrote:
> Started hacking around to make it work. So I changed the `main` to a:
> 
> extern int ffprobe(int argc, char **argv);
> 
> Then I added a header with a prototype of the same, and started
> messing with vcpkg + CMake to try and get it to build correctly.

That's not going to work.
The whole thing is not designed to be called more than once, and you can 
be close to certain that it's going to fail miserably and in unexpected 
ways.

Use the libraries if you want to integrate ffmpeg functionality into 
your own application.

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