I am using a very pared down set of FFMpeg features for a macOS project that I build into a custom library. I had a script set up to configure the build which worked fine on my Intel based MacBook Pro. Then I upgraded to an Apple Silicon MacBookPro and wanted to run natively, or at least see what happened when I did. To build, FFMpeg uses autoconf which produces a makefile that then handles the build.

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Horace Dediu of Asymco has been publishing some fantastic insights and analysis of the mobile market in the past few weeks. I linked to some of Dediu's analysis of the Economics of Android in an earlier post, and since then he's updated his work with the latest data and is studying RIM and Microsoft's efforts in the space as well.

In iOS 4.0 Apple introduced the AV Foundation APIs that made working with audio and video media much easier than it had been in previous versions of iOS. Apple then brought these APIs to Mac OS X in OS X 10.7 "Lion". In this post I'll show how to use some of the APIs to create a simple four track mixer.

Apple made their session videos from WWDC 2012 available earlier this week in record time. It's nice to see since tickets for this years event sold out in under two hours. Apple has an iOS 6 Preview page touting some of the new features such as Siri's new abilities, tighter integration with Facebook, Photo Stream sharing, and things like iCloud tabs for Safari all of which look great.

Drew McCormack is writing a great series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) of posts about using iCloud for syncing Core Data managed data. It's harder than Apple lets on and Drew has done a great job of uncovering how this actually works.