CI failed due to FFMPEG not downloading

[hapythecoder]

When I run the command through git bash shell inside the repo it fails when trying to download FFMPEG.

FFmpeg 4.2.2...
Downloading ffmpeg-4.2.2-win64.zip... Failed!

[AnyOldName3]

The guy who's been providing FFMEPG builds to the world for years stopped doing it a few days ago. We've not found a replacement yet.

[hapythecoder]

Ah cool thanks! Please let me know when its fixed or if there are alternate ways to build it. Just joined the discord too. Will check for updates often

[akortunov]

We've not found a replacement yet.

Can we just host used dependencies on OpenMW site to do not rely on 3d-party sources?

[AnyOldName3]

That's probably what we're going to go for, but we also need to either build and package the dependencies ourselves or find a new source for them. The usual way to use FFMPEG on Windows was to use Zeranoe's builds until a few days ago when he shut down his service.

[akortunov]

https://github.com/ShareX/FFmpeg/releases
https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases
https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/packages

Last two links are from ffmpeg.org downloads page.

[psi29a]

I was thinking that perhaps it isn't such a bad idea to have our own gitlab repo to handle our dependency issues. Enable LFS and we get to handle our own versioning. It would also save us from having to host deps from downloads.openmw.org like we've been doing for MacOS.

[AnyOldName3]

It's my understanding that FFMPEG only had the Zeranoe link a few days ago, and only just added replacements. Either way, what we're saying here is just rehashing what we've already discussed on Discord.

[psi29a]

Jup, done: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw-deps

[korreckj328]

Jup, done: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw-deps

Hey, new user that just started looking at the code, and I can confirm that this works. I downloaded from your link, popped them in the deps folder and everything built and runs.