[Openvip-users] OpenVIP 1.0 doesn't use ffmpeg

[HaJo S. <ha...@ha...>]

Hi List,

Recently I stumbled over OpenVIP and think that this is exactly what I
was missing under Linux. But then I seem to have quite some trouble
getting it to work correctly. After fiddling for a while with the
correct dependencies, I am now able to do a fresh build without any
errors (on a more-or-less stock RedHat 9 Pentium4 platform). Seems like
all the plugins are building OK.

But when I run ./list_plugins.py, it only shows me the WAV&PIC-Input,
not the ffmpeg. Same is true for the output. The result is obvious, in
OpenVIP-GUI, I can only load WAV & PICs, not movie clips. 
libin_ffmpeg.so & libout_ffmpeg.so are in bin/plugins, ffmpeg 0.4.8 is
in /usr/bin, matching libavcodec.a & libavformat.a are in /usr/lib.
After compilation (for your reference, a build log is @
http://www.hajo.net/openvip/build.log), I have to copy libopenvip_hl.so
to /usr/lib & do a ldconfig, otherwise OpenVIP barks. 

Running list_plugins.py then gives me a list as in
http://www.hajo.net/openvip/plugins.txt

I'd appreciate very much if you could give me some hints as how to debug
the problem further. Somehow I'm a bit lost here, especially also
because it's the first time I see this bjam-way of building a project.
Is there e.g. a way to increase verbosity of the ffmpeg-plugins to see
what's actually happening?

Other than that: All thumbs up, OpenVIP promises to be an excellent
piece of software!

Tnx a lot,
HaJo