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

[Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao]

Robert you are right. I can now save .avi if the fps is set to power of 2.
I also left a note in the bug report.

Thanks,
Joe

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Robert Maynard
<robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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