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.buijs...@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 outdated ffmpeg version from February 2007 or so (downloadable as a tarball 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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