Re: Octave Video Package

[PrasannaKumar Muralidharan]

Hi,

Patch attached with this email was required to make the video package
compile with latest ffmpeg 2.8 in Ubuntu 14.04. I have just compiled
the code, did not load / test.

Regards,
PrasannaKumar

On 15 September 2015 at 12:18, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
>>>
>>> Inside the Octave installation I think this will only be useful if the
>>> Octave binary installer for Windows was built with the --enable-dev-tools
>>> option.
>>> Even then, I doubt your suggestion will work as autotools and m4 etc are
>>> lacking. AFAIU the bash shell is merely meant to be able to run Octave in
>>> gdb on the Windows side.
>>> It could be that it is fairly easy to augment the bash shell with the
>>> required development tools; on the mingw site compiled build tools are
>>> available.
>>
>>
>> I was able to compile ffmpeg with the installed tools. make and gcc
>> are present and the video package had configure script.
>
>
> Yes I ignored that Octave should be able to install packages and needs some
> basic tools for that.  Nice to know that some dependencies (that are usually
> built outside Octave) can be built as well.
>
>>> Although libavformat.dll, libavcodec.dd, etc aren't present in my
>>> OCTAVE_HOME/bin folder, it seems that ffmpeg *IS* (or rather: should be)
>>> included in the mxe-octave build:
>>> - http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/c8c394328c54/src
>>> - http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/28fa86d2cf21
>>> - http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/log/c8c394328c54/src/ffmpeg.mk
>>>
>>> Maybe it is related to having Octave for 64-bit windows running, I don't
>>> know.
>>> As I'm also interested in the video package I'll have a look one of these
>>> days, but not now as I have several other priorities.
>>
>>
>> Please tell your observation in this.
>
>
> In the mean time JohnD already enlightened us here (see his post).
>
> Philip
>

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