[vtk-developers] Proposed VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS / vfw32 / vtkAVIWriter changes

[Mathieu Malaterre]

David Cole wrote:
> OK, objection registered this time. Idea needs more brewing... :-)
> 
> Sounds like you want vtkAVIWriter from cygwin, but we can't compile 
> vtkWin32VideoSource.cxx there (I'm running a test compile under cygwin 
> right now to verify that's still the case.)

Great ! Last time I checked was a ~year ago.

> Should we leave the VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS setting as is and then add 
> a new flag that's the internal only result of the TRY_COMPILE to decide 
> about including vtkAVIWriter? Is that the optimum solution?

That's my guess. One option for recording video and one option for 
outputing video. I don't think there is anything wrong with that (other 
than more user input when they want both...)

Mathieu