[Paraview-developers] Which version of ffmpeg should I build ParaView 3.14 with?

[Robert Maynard]

This looks like to be the be the framerate bug (
http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=11923 ). Does setting the frame
rate to a power of two work at all for you?

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao <phsiao at cs.unc.edu>wrote:

> Hi Utkarsh and Scott,
>
>   Thanks for the input. I tried Scott's configuration setting in both
> 0.6.1 and 0.6.5, but I still got errors when saving a .avi file. I
> also tried with different parameters, e.g. --arch=x86_64, but it
> didn't help. The errors are
>
> Generic Warning: In
> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx, line
> 211
> Could not open codec.
>
> ERROR: In /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx,
> line 514
> vtkFFMPEGWriter (0x128cac300): Error initializing video stream.
>
> A weird thing is the error messages only appear if I set the fps to
> greater than one in the saving dialog. If I leave it to the default
> value, which is one, there is no problem.
>
> Here is my system info:
> Mac OS X 10.6.8
> Qt 4.6.3
> ParaView 3.14.0
> ffmpeg 0.6.1 and 0.6.5
>
> The configure setting is same as Scott's:
> ./configure --disable-static --disable-network --disable-zlib
> --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay --disable-decoders --enable-shared
> --enable-swscale --prefix=/Users/phsiao/dev/ffmpeg-0.6.1-make-install
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> > ParaView 3.14 binaries are built with FFMPEG 0.6.5. You can get it
> > from : http://paraview.org/files/v3.14/dependencies/
> >
> > Utkarsh
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao <phsiao at cs.unc.edu>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I failed building ParaView 3.14 with ffmpeg on Mac. The error messages
> are
> >>
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:117:
> >> error: ‘av_alloc_format_context’ was not declared in this scope
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:126:
> >> error: ‘guess_format’ was not declared in this scope
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:143:
> >> warning: ‘av_new_stream’ is deprecated (declared at
> >>
> /Users/phsiao/dev/ffmpeg-make-install/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1440)
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:143:
> >> warning: ‘av_new_stream’ is deprecated (declared at
> >>
> /Users/phsiao/dev/ffmpeg-make-install/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1440)
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:153:
> >> error: ‘CODEC_TYPE_VIDEO’ was not declared in this scope
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:196:
> >> error: ‘av_set_parameters’ was not declared in this scope
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:209:
> >> warning: ‘avcodec_open’ is deprecated (declared at
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/ffmpeg-make-install/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:3675)
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/src/ParaView-3.14.0/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:209:
> >> warning: ‘avcodec_open’ is deprecated (declared at
> >> /Users/phsiao/dev/ffmpeg-make-install/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:3675)
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> ffmpeg was downloaded from the most recent git repository. By
> >> googling, people said the API has been changed a bit since ffmpeg
> >> 0.8.6. So I am wondering which version should I use?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Joe
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