common questions people ask me all the time, lets hope this reduces the stuff in my inbox, otherwise ill train bogofilter on them ...

Originally committed as revision 4583 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

doc/faq.texi

@@ -182,4 +182,25 @@ The build process creates ffmpeg_g, ffplay_g, etc. which contain full debug
 information. Those binaries are strip'd to create ffmpeg, ffplay, etc. If
 you need the debug information, used the *_g versions.
 
+@section I do not like the LGPL, can I contribute code under the GPL instead
+
+yes, ffmpeg contains GPL and LGPL code, the GPL code is only compiled if
+'--enable-gpl' is passed to configure in which case the resulting binary will
+be covered by the GPL instead of the LGPL
+
+@section I want to compile xyz.c alone but my compier produced many errors
+
+common code is in its own files in libav* and is used by the individual
+codecs, they will not work without the common parts, you have to compile
+the whole libav* and if you wish disable some parts with configure
+switches, you can also try to hack it and remove more but if you seriously
+wanted to ask the question above then you are not qualified for this
+
+@section visual c++ produced many errors
+
+you need a c compiler (visual c++ is not compliant to the c standard)
+if you wish for whatever weird reason use visual c++ for your project
+then you can link the visual c++ code with libav* as long as you compile
+the later with a working c compiler
+
 @bye