DOS ain't dead - FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update

FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 25.01.2013, 05:06

> The 41 MB .rar doesn't open in sfn DOS, just empty directories.
>
> Any chance of the executables in a simple .zip for us 16 bit DOS types ?
> (MS-DOS 6.20 - no long file names)

It might work in a pinch, but I don't know if that would be ideal. While I'm not super familiar with UnRAR, it probably has some switch to help cases like this. (IIRC, all unzip does is truncate to 8.3 and manually requiring rename upon any clashes.)

But are you sure you really want this? I think it'd be better overall if he packaged the binaries and sources entirely separately anyways (esp. since it's 5000 files, 300 subdirs, and 160 MB unpacked, not counting eventual slack space).

At any rate, just to be sure I wasn't giving bad advice, I downloaded it and ran "starlfn /i", and then "unrar x" seemed to work slowly but fine [1] (though you may wish to use "-inul -x*.c -x*.cc -x*.cpp -x*.h -x*.asm -x*.S" to avoid unpacking those files). And this way, it only creates LFNs inside LONGNAME.DAT text files, so no dir entries are (ab)used for VFAT's dirty LFN kludge.

1. "Fine" except for some spurious errors due to some files being too deep for the DOS directory limit (8 max), e.g. XCode project files, I think. I don't know if this is avoidable or not without some tedious reorganization, and I didn't check too closely. But the main FFMPEG.EXE binary is only 4 MB, so I assume it doesn't need most of the other files, esp. not sources, not sure about configs. (I'm not a multimedia buff and never used FFMPEG nor similar, sorry, heh.)

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FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - RayeR, 17.01.2013, 02:26 (Announce)
- FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - Cyril, 18.01.2013, 11:46
  - FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - RayeR, 18.01.2013, 13:38
    - FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - Cyril, 19.01.2013, 08:34
      - FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - RayeR, 19.01.2013, 21:19
        FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - RayeR, 20.01.2013, 00:31
        FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - ron, 25.01.2013, 01:29
        FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - Rugxulo, 25.01.2013, 05:06
        FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - Cyril, 25.01.2013, 11:18
        FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - RayeR, 25.01.2013, 17:13
        FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - ron, 25.01.2013, 21:54
        FFMPEG, x264 & LAME DOS port update - RayeR, 25.01.2013, 22:21
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    - FFMPEG . SPEEX . FFMPEG2THEORA - DOS386, 04.02.2013, 15:38
      - FFMPEG . SPEEX . FFMPEG2THEORA - RayeR, 04.02.2013, 19:10