[vtkusers] Install FFMPEG

[David E DeMarle]

Hi Janny,

I think that you are navigating uncharted territory. We intended the ffmpeg
library to be used on Linux and Mac platforms and for windows users to use
the native AVI writing library. I do not know of anyone else who has tried
to get the library to compile and link to VTK on windows. Also we have not
tested VTK against a more recent version of ffmpeg. I would guess that the
ffmpeg library has changed significantly since we first started using it,
which is why cmake can not find what it needs in the up to date version that
you have.

sorry,
Dave DeMarle

On 5/25/07, Janny Dong <janny.dong at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have tried to download and install FFMPEG through
> http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php
> but failed.
>
> * FFMPEG Source Code
> *
>
> The FFMPEG multimedia library source code can be obtained either from the sourceforge
> web site <http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/download.php> or by downloading
> ffmpeg_source.tar.gz<http://www.vtk.org/files/support/ffmpeg_source.tar.gz>
>
> The instruction included in the zipped file seems to be outdated. It
> suggests CVS update but the CVS server already retired according to sourceforge
> web site. <http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/download.php>
> I searched the web and installed MINGW. I used MINGW to install and
> compile the library with source files in the zipped file but it keeps
> complaining after 'make' command:
>
> make -C libavutil all
> make[1]: Entering directory '/C/ffmpeg/libavutil'
> Makefile:36 *** missing separator. Stop
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/C/ffmpeg/libavutil'
> make: *** [lib] Error 2.
>
> I also tried to install with nightly Subversion snapshots from http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html
> . No error this time but I couldn't make VTK find the library by setting
> CMAKE variables.
>
> Anyone can share some successful experience with me?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Janny
>
>
> <http://www.vtk.org/files/support/vtkmpeg2encode.tar.gz>
>
>
>
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