[Paraview] git master and latest ffmpeg

[Sven Buijssen]

Hi,

I'd like to suggest the attached patch as a starting point. It gets PV compiled
again against ffmpeg svn head. On 32 and 64 bit Linux and 64 bit Solaris systems
I did not observe any side effects yet (using gcc only to compile PV, though).

Sven



Dave Partyka wrote, On 29.04.2010 17:46:
> FYI, It is on my todo list to
> 
> 1. restore dash16 to build VTK against the old FFMPEG
> 2. potentially setup a new dashboard that builds against at least a more
> recent version.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Sven Buijssen
> <sven.buijssen at tu-dortmund.de <mailto:sven.buijssen at tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Michael,
> 
>     > The problem with ffmpeg IMHO is that it is a moving target (as is
>     also declared on their website). It is almost impossible for
>     ParaView to keep up and just arbitrarily picking any revision is no
>     solution either, because that will cause a lot of trouble for packagers.
> 
>     It's just that PV and VTK for a month or three now supported both
>     the old
>     outdated ffmpeg version from February 2007 or so (downloadable as a
>     tarball from
>     the addons section of the VTK software download website) AND the
>     latest ffmpeg.
>     Up to last Monday. Given the effort spent to re-add support for
>     newer ffmpeg
>     versions and considering that the change in ffmpeg that breaks it
>     this time in
>     PV is less complex to work around than last time (headers completely
>     reworked),
>     I think we shouldn't let go that easily.
> 
>     > <shameless_plug>I suggest you give the included Ogg/Theora writer
>     a try.</shameless_plug>.
> 
>     I'm well aware of your contribution and compile ParaView with
>      -DVTK_USE_OGGTHEORA_ENCODER:BOOL=ON -DVTK_USE_FFMPEG_ENCODER:BOOL=ON
>     ever since you announced your git fork of PV on this mailing list,
>     so even
>     before ogv support has been added to the official source tree. :-)
>      It's just
>     that some of my users prefer avi over ogv.
> 
>     Sven
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