On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 +0000 Carsten Mattner via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For various reasons like missing features and wrong version > I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own > package, and this results in a cyclic dependency I cannot > get out of. What, exactly, is the issue here? You need an ffmpeg package that provides what x264 needs, nothing more.