[Paraview] git master and latest ffmpeg

[Michael Wild]

Perhaps a dashboard which always checks out the most recent version of ffmpeg and tries to build against it? Would it be worthwhile to offer the user the choice of downloading and building the most recent ffmpeg (and perhaps also the last known-to-work revision) as an ExternalProject?

Michael

On 29. Apr, 2010, at 17:46 , Dave Partyka wrote:

> 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.buijssen at 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 outdated ffmpeg version from February 2007 or so (downloadable as a tarball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
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