Re: [CsMain] Divx codec?

[Eric S. <sun...@su...>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:53:01 +0000, Dr M Price wrote:
> Oh good, I was a bit confused because the path: CS/libs/csutil/unix/
> does not exist in my installed tree (v0.96r4).

In version 0.96, the path would have been CS/libs/cssys/unix/unix.mak.

> I tried hacking the
> "user.mak" file under CS/mk/ as this was the only make file I could
> find with any reference to plugins.

That would also work.

> It failed in any case!  I think
> my version of DivX is too new (v5), but I haven't had chance to take
> a look at the plugin source - it seems like the divx interface has
> changed slightly (I'm guessing).

That could be, or you enabled the wrong plugin.  It appears that we have  
plugins for versions 4 (codecs/divx4) and earlier (codecs/opendivx).  Whether  
the version 4 plugin will work with version 5 will have to be determined.

> Oh sorry, I guess that was a subtle hint for me to let you see the
> file!  Attached.  The file didn't really say a lot to me; but I should
> say that I have copies of the openal library under /usr/local/ and under
> a directory specified via the configure script flag "-with-openal=..."
> which I am not sure is a valid flag for the script.

You can find out which options the script understands by invoking "configure  
--help".  In this case, --with-openal is not one of the recognized options.

> My "standard"
> install is under /usr/local/lib/ (with the headers in
> /usr/local/include/)  The log file reports that it couldn't find
> "AL/alut.h", but /usr/local/include/AL/alut.h exists.  Weird.

That location will be searched by default.

> The config file was too big, so I've reduced it to include just the
> relevant lines.  The first test is failing because there is no libalut
> with openal under linux.  I'm using suse7.3 at the moment, (gcc2.95.3)
> which I think means that you have to explicitly specify "-ldl" in
> the compile command.  This might be why the final test is failing.

According to config.log, there are a couple libraries it needs: dl and  
pthread.  The configure script in the CVS version of CS was updated some time  
back to use -lpthread with OpenAL, so that should be fixed already.  I can  
further update it to also use -ldl.  Please try the CVS version and report  
your results (but give the -ldl change time to propagate to the anonymous CVS  
server -- at most 5 hours).

-- ES