I might be a bit biased, but sometimes I really wonder why people are so keen on the ffmpeg writer. It is a major PITA to build the correct ffmpeg libraries since there are no official releases, the API is a fast moving target and the patent status is dodgy at best.
Using the provided Ogg/Theora encoder works out of the box, produces good quality animations, is in my experience faster and it is patent-free and fully open source. Virtually every media player on any Linux distro plays Ogg/Theora without further ado, and there are plugins for QuickTime (Mac) and DirectShow (Windows) available from the Xiph foundation (www.xiph.org). If you really want to have a AVI movie, you then can still use any of the readily available ffmpeg binaries for conversion. My 2c... Michael On 05/02/2011 09:44 PM, David Partyka wrote: > That version of FFMPEG doesn't make swscale. What you need to do is delete > all of the FFMPEG_ variables from cmake and then reconfigure. As the FFMPEG > detection logic code caches several decisions about whether the FFMPEG build > is an older FFMPEG (which you are trying to use) or a more modern version > with swscale. Otherwise use the latest version, that is what was used in the > ParaView 3.10 binaries. > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, pratik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hello, >> Can you please tell me whether the libraries given here: >> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html >> are still valid for compiling with PV? I tried to do just that, but i was >> getting error that libawscale.so was not found, but that library is not >> included in file! >> I had read that FFMPEG had changed its api, so does PV now accept the >> latest ffmpeg api? which api does PV 3.10 accept (version number of ffmpeg)? >> >> Thank you >> >> pratik _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
