Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Building ffmpeg.js for Ubuntu

Paul Kinlan

Building ffmpeg.js, a tool I used in my project Device Frame, can be tricky if you need custom filters and encoders. This post details the steps I took to successfully build it on Ubuntu, including installing dependencies, cloning the repo, setting up Emscripten, and running the build. I also included solutions to some common errors encountered during the process.

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Running GACUtil in Build for Visual Studio 2005

Paul Kinlan

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 doesn't load PATH environment variables during build, causing tools like GACUtil and RegAsm.exe to fail. A simple fix is to add 'CALL "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat" > NULL' to your build script before calling these tools. This sets the necessary environment variables, allowing the build to succeed.

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