Anatomy of FFmpeg-Builds Video Codec Recipes
Walkthrough of the ffbuild_* script interface used by FFmpeg-Builds, including x265 8/10/12-bit multilib merging with ar and the SVT-AV1 SVT_AV1_LTO=OFF conflict.
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