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+FFmpeg examples README
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+
+Both following use cases rely on pkg-config and make, thus make sure
+that you have them installed and working on your system.
+
+
+Method 1: build the installed examples in a generic read/write user directory
+
+Copy to a read/write user directory and just use "make", it will link
+to the libraries on your system, assuming the PKG_CONFIG_PATH is
+correctly configured.
+
+Method 2: build the examples in-tree
+
+Assuming you are in the source FFmpeg checkout directory, you need to build
+FFmpeg (no need to make install in any prefix). Then just run "make examples".
+This will build the examples using the FFmpeg build system. You can clean those
+examples using "make examplesclean"
+
+If you want to try the dedicated Makefile examples (to emulate the first
+method), go into doc/examples and run a command such as
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH=pc-uninstalled make.