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Bilal
2018-10-01
2018-10-02
  • Bilal

    Bilal - 2018-10-01

    Installed on Debian, How can i solv this error?
    img parrot.jpg startpoint center duration 0.4
    Display could not be initialized.00 y= 1456.00 and zoom 1.00

     
  • Denis-Carl Robidoux

    Hello, haven't got any news from that old project in a long time.

    There are a few reasons why this message would occur, these are standard issues with any xwindow software (all linux softwares with GUIs):
    - Your system does not have Xwindow installed
    - Your Xwindow is not running (you're using a command line only system)
    - You're trying to build it through ssh from another computer.
    - The environment variable DISPLAY is not defined for some other reasons.

    You could fix whichever reasons I mentioned above or you could avoid having the issue by removing the "-showoutput" option from the command line (you could edit the Makefile to remove it, but I thought I removed it long ago? not sure), seeing the result live is purely optional and was just an unecessary nice-to-have.

    I see that the version on sourceforge was 0.601 but my latest was 0.602 where I fixed the Makefile to use a somewhat newer order of linking libraries with gcc (and maybe other details I don't remember):

    Since sourceforge dropped CVS and I'm not interested in fiddling with their conversion process I switched to github where you can find my latest version:
    https://github.com/meantux/stills2dv

     
  • Bilal

    Bilal - 2018-10-02

    Hi, you right i removed -showoutput and it works fine.
    Great work you made, thank you!

     

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