From: Matt L. <mat...@ki...> - 2011-12-18 04:01:13
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Mathieu, I've committed a change to VXL that allows the vidl library to compile against the ffmpeg package in Ubuntu 11.10. I just tested it and it also seems to compile against the release/0.7 branch of libav. However, there is a warning about use of one deprecated API. --Matt On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Matt Leotta <mat...@ki...> wrote: > Mathieu, > > You should feel free to remove the avifile dependency from the current > vxl release package. It is only required by the deprecated core/vidl1 > and a few other old and unmaintained bits of code in contrib. There > should be no problem building with all the AVIFILE CMake variables set > to IGNORE or NOT-FOUND. I've been building this way for years. In > fact, just this week we finally removed the deprecated core/vidl1 > library, so the next stable vxl release will have no avifile > dependency in the core libraries. > > As for ffmpeg/libav we intend to continue support for that in > core/vidl. I tend to update core/vidl occasionally to build against > newer versions of ffmpeg/libav. I also try to keep the code backward > compatible with older versions of ffmpeg/libav. There is no organized > plan for these updates, I usually just patch vxl whenever I update my > Ubuntu release and find that the packaged version no longer works. I > have a patch ready now that will fix vidl to work with whatever > version of ffmpeg is currently distributed with Ubuntu 11.10, I think > it's ffmpeg 0.6. It seems I forgot to push that upstream to vxl, so > I'll do that today. > > Are you looking to target a particular version of libav? If you point > me at a specific version of libav, or better yet a git commit hash, > then I can preemptively add support for it. > > Thanks for maintaining Debian packages! > > --Matt > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Mathieu Malaterre > <mat...@gm...> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> VXL has been packaged for debian system with avifile binding. >> However this library seems dead upstream, and for the next release of >> debian this avifile library will be removed [1]. I am tempted to >> removed avifile right now (vxl 1.14 release) however the ffmpeg >> binding are far from perfect (I wrote them) [2]. So my questions are: >> >> - are you planning to maintain the avifile binding for the next vxl release ? >> - are you planning to update vxl to compile with ffmpeg before/after >> the libav transition ? >> >> Thanks much ! >> >> >> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647787 >> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638251 >> >> -- >> Mathieu >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 >> Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for >> developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it >> provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. >> Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure >> _______________________________________________ >> Vxl-maintainers mailing list >> Vxl...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vxl-maintainers |