Installing FFmpeg on a ReadyNAS Duo

[simoncn]

(04-09-2014 23:57)DavidHB Wrote:  It seems to me that you have answered your own question. To support all NETGEAR NAS models currently in use requires (I think) at least 4 differently compiled and/or packaged versions of any given app. That can hardly be a cost-effective maintenance workload, particularly when NETGEAR put so little effort into documenting their systems and providing useful app stores and installation facilities.

It is worse than this. I would also need to buy and accommodate multiple hardware units for testing/supporting the different packaged versions of the same app on the same hardware platform (ARM or x86).

Quote:I don't think that it is an accident that more external apps are still offered for the original SPARC-based ReadyNASs than for the later models. Once NETGEAR showed their true colours in bringing out a succession of devices without forwards or backwards compatibility, developers moved their interest elsewhere, and who can blame them? Even if you were to bite the bullet and support the latest models, who's to say that NETGEAR won't change tack yet again, and leave you high and dry once more?

David

Exactly. Given past history, this seems quite likely.