[vtkusers] FFMPEG for VTK?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:36 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> The recommended way to get ffmpeg to work with vtk is to download the
> old version of ffmpeg that is known to work with VTK from from
> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#addons, and follow the
> directions in the README.
>
> If you need to use a modern ffmpeg then FFMPEG_INCLUDE should point to
> a directory that has ffmpeg/avformat.h in it. If you can't find that
> in /usr/include, find out where ubuntu's ffmpeg package puts it.Note,
> some linux distributions have separate developer and user packages and
> you generally have to install the developer package to get the header
> files, but I do not suspect that is the problem in this case.
>
> You will also have to change the vtk ffmpeg exporter class to work
> with the new ffmpeg library. I recall seeing a patch on the mailing
> list or the bug tracker that does that, but I can't seem to track it
> down right now.

debian is using this one:

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/misc/view/vtk/5.2.1-13/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx

HTH
-- 
Mathieu