ffmpeg does not compile with https / openssl support

[adammw]

Installing ffmpeg with the openssl flag (tried both enable-openssl and with-openssl arguments to brew) and neither produce a ffmpeg binary with SSL support.

brew install ffmpeg --with-faac --with-lame --with-xvid --with-theora --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-rtmpdump --with-ffplay --with-speex --with-opus --enable-openssl --with-openssl

which results in:

ffmpeg version 1.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jul 10 2013 02:44:54 with Apple clang version 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.65) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --enable-vda --cc=cc --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --enable-ffplay --enable-libspeex --enable-libopus
  libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
  libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
  libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
  libavdevice    54.  3.103 / 54.  3.103
  libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
  libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

and

$ ffmpeg -protocols
ffmpeg version 1.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jul 10 2013 02:44:54 with Apple clang version 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.65) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/1.2.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --enable-vda --cc=cc --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --enable-ffplay --enable-libspeex --enable-libopus
  libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
  libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
  libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
  libavdevice    54.  3.103 / 54.  3.103
  libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
  libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Supported file protocols:
Input:
applehttp
cache
concat
crypto
data
file
gopher
hls
http
httpproxy
mmsh
mmst
pipe
rtp
srtp
tcp
udp
rtmp
rtmpe
rtmps
rtmpt
rtmpte
Output:
file
gopher
http
httpproxy
md5
pipe
rtp
srtp
tcp
udp
rtmp
rtmpe
rtmps
rtmpt
rtmpte

(ie configure does not list --enable-openssl and protocols does not list https)

[mistydemeo]

The ffmpeg formula doesn't have an openssl option; check brew options ffmpeg to see the available options. We'd accept a pull request to add it if you wanted to submit it!

[adammw]

What's this then? https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/ffmpeg.rb#L83

[mistydemeo]

Aha, looks like the option definition went missing and that code does nothing if the option isn't declared. Fix incoming.

[mistydemeo]

Fixed! Thanks for the report, sorry I closed hastily.

[adammw]

Thanks. I didn't realise they required options definitions separately.

[jacknagel]

Should we make build.with? raise an error if the option isn't declared?

[adamv]

Probably

[MikeMcQuaid]

@jacknagel Yes.

[anacrolix]

I'm not sure this is fixed.

anacrolix@Matts-MBP:~/persistent downloads$ ffmpeg -protocols
ffmpeg version 2.6.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/2.6.2 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libxvid --enable-vda
libavutil 54. 20.100 / 54. 20.100
libavcodec 56. 26.100 / 56. 26.100
libavformat 56. 25.101 / 56. 25.101
libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100
libavfilter 5. 11.102 / 5. 11.102
libavresample 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101
libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100
libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100
Supported file protocols:
Input:
cache
concat
crypto
data
ffrtmphttp
file
ftp
gopher
hls
http
httpproxy
mmsh
mmst
pipe
rtmp
rtmpt
rtp
srtp
subfile
tcp
udp
udplite
unix
Output:
crypto
ffrtmphttp
file
ftp
gopher
http
httpproxy
icecast
md5
pipe
rtmp
rtmpt
rtp
srtp
tcp
udp
udplite
unix

[DomT4]

^ You need to pass --with-openssl to brew install ffmpeg. It's not a default option.