Re: Better Video Codecs - was Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] ideas..

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

I guess openh323 openh323 org

But perhaps Craig in CC knows where you can find a binary only version
of the file. (ffmpeg patched for H.263).


Le jeudi 08 décembre 2005 à 19:11 +0000, JGJones a écrit :
> argh...so where do I ask for help for this error with ffmpeg seeing that 
> it's a patched version which is needed for h263 in GnomeMeeting/OpenH323?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> JGJones
> 
> Y Ddraig Goch a ddyry Gychwyn
> Cymru am byth
> 
> BSL Video-Group:
> http://mail.bluecheetah.biz/mailman/listinfo/bsl-vgroup_bluecheetah.biz
> 
> Deaf-UK Technology Wiki
> http://bslvgroup.mrdini.com/wiki/Main_Page
> 
> There are 10 kinds of people in this world: 1) nerds and 2) normals.
> 
> 
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Le jeudi 08 décembre 2005 à 18:29 +0000, JGJones a écrit :
> > 
> >>I can't see any binary for patched ffmpeg
> >>
> >>The only downloads I can find is here - 
> >>http://www.voxgratia.org/downloads.html
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Too bad I deleted mine :(
> > 
> > 
> >>All sources and no ffmpeg.
> >>
> >>JGJones
> >>
> >>Y Ddraig Goch a ddyry Gychwyn
> >>Cymru am byth
> >>
> >>BSL Video-Group:
> >>http://mail.bluecheetah.biz/mailman/listinfo/bsl-vgroup_bluecheetah.biz
> >>
> >>Deaf-UK Technology Wiki
> >>http://bslvgroup.mrdini.com/wiki/Main_Page
> >>
> >>There are 10 kinds of people in this world: 1) nerds and 2) normals.
> >>
> >>
> >>Damien Sandras wrote:
> >>
> >>>Voxgratia is providing a binary, use it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Le jeudi 08 décembre 2005 à 18:09 +0000, JGJones a écrit :
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I've no idea...I did see those and think of them...but what are sdl 
> >>>>headers? Where do I get them from?
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm using the prepatched ffmpeg 0.4.7 as provided from the website here 
> >>>>- http://www.voxgratia.org/docs/h263_codec.html
> >>>>
> >>>>I have removed ffmpeg from my system (installed via apt-get) so I don't 
> >>>>have ffmpeg on my system since I presume I would be replacing it with 
> >>>>the patched ffmpeg?
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>>JGJones
> >>>>
> >>>>Y Ddraig Goch a ddyry Gychwyn
> >>>>Cymru am byth
> >>>>
> >>>>BSL Video-Group:
> >>>>http://mail.bluecheetah.biz/mailman/listinfo/bsl-vgroup_bluecheetah.biz
> >>>>
> >>>>Deaf-UK Technology Wiki
> >>>>http://bslvgroup.mrdini.com/wiki/Main_Page
> >>>>
> >>>>There are 10 kinds of people in this world: 1) nerds and 2) normals.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Conrad Beckert wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Could it be that sdl headers are missing - or even sdl at all?
> >>>>>The first 2 lines suggest this. 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Conrad
> >>>>>Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2005 18:52 schrieb JGJones:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Afraid I'm stuck on the very first step....
> >>>>>>Using precompiled patched ffmpeg - I'm unable to install it at all.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>in ffmpeg 0.4.7 I do a ,/configure and get this:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>./configure: line 710: sdl-config: command not found
> >>>>>>./configure: line 710: sdl-config: command not found
> >>>>>>Install prefix   /usr/local
> >>>>>>Source path      /home/jgjones/tmp/GnomeMeeting/ffmpeg-0.4.7
> >>>>>>C compiler       gcc
> >>>>>>make             make
> >>>>>>CPU              x86 (generic)
> >>>>>>Big Endian       no
> >>>>>>MMX enabled      yes
> >>>>>>Vector Builtins  yes
> >>>>>>gprof enabled    no
> >>>>>>zlib enabled     yes
> >>>>>>mp3lame enabled  no
> >>>>>>vorbis enabled   no
> >>>>>>faad enabled     no
> >>>>>>faadbin enabled  no
> >>>>>>a52 support      yes
> >>>>>>a52 dlopened     no
> >>>>>>pp support       yes
> >>>>>>shared pp        no
> >>>>>>Video hooking    yes
> >>>>>>SDL support      no
> >>>>>>risky / patent encumbered codecs yes
> >>>>>>optimize for size no
> >>>>>>Imlib2 support   no
> >>>>>>freetype support yes
> >>>>>>Sun medialib support no
> >>>>>>AMR-NB float support no
> >>>>>>AMR-NB fixed support no
> >>>>>>Creating config.mak and config.h
> >>>>>>config.h is unchanged
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Then I assume that since it's precompiled I don't need to do a make and
> >>>>>>then make install so do a make install:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>make -C libavcodec all
> >>>>>>make[1]: Entering directory
> >>>>>>`/home/jgjones/tmp/GnomeMeeting/ffmpeg-0.4.7/libavcodec'
> >>>>>>gcc -O3 -Wall -g -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> >>>>>>-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o common.o common.c
> >>>>>>In file included from avcodec.h:14,
> >>>>>>                from common.c:27:
> >>>>>>common.h:66: error: array type has incomplete element type
> >>>>>>common.h:70: error: array type has incomplete element type
> >>>>>>make[1]: *** [common.o] Error 1
> >>>>>>make[1]: Leaving directory
> >>>>>>`/home/jgjones/tmp/GnomeMeeting/ffmpeg-0.4.7/libavcodec'
> >>>>>>make: *** [lib] Error 2
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>make on its own also do the same:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>make -C libavcodec all
> >>>>>>make[1]: Entering directory
> >>>>>>`/home/jgjones/tmp/GnomeMeeting/ffmpeg-0.4.7/libavcodec'
> >>>>>>gcc -O3 -Wall -g -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> >>>>>>-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o common.o common.c
> >>>>>>In file included from avcodec.h:14,
> >>>>>>                from common.c:27:
> >>>>>>common.h:66: error: array type has incomplete element type
> >>>>>>common.h:70: error: array type has incomplete element type
> >>>>>>make[1]: *** [common.o] Error 1
> >>>>>>make[1]: Leaving directory
> >>>>>>`/home/jgjones/tmp/GnomeMeeting/ffmpeg-0.4.7/libavcodec'
> >>>>>>make: *** [lib] Error 2
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I can go no further and install OpenH323 without the patched ffmpeg so
> >>>>>>what's causing my problems? Thanks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>JGJones
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Y Ddraig Goch a ddyry Gychwyn
> >>>>>>Cymru am byth
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>BSL Video-Group:
> >>>>>>http://mail.bluecheetah.biz/mailman/listinfo/bsl-vgroup_bluecheetah.biz
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Deaf-UK Technology Wiki
> >>>>>>http://bslvgroup.mrdini.com/wiki/Main_Page
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>There are 10 kinds of people in this world: 1) nerds and 2) normals.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Damien Sandras wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Le jeudi 08 d�cembre 2005 � 16:10 +0000, JGJones a �crit :
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>eek! :)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>I'm not too worried about the patent issues myself so I can certainly
> >>>>>>>>attempt to compile it myself.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Teach me the Dark Side, Master!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>First start removing
> >>>>>>>gnomemeeting,gnomemeeting-devel,openh323,openh323-devel,pwlib-devel.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Then, download the sources on www.gnomemeeting.org.
> >>>>>>>Read this : http://www.voxgratia.org/docs/h263_codec.html
> >>>>>>>After having applied the patch, recompile openh323.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Once it is done, recontact me for the GnomeMeeting part. I will tell you
> >>>>>>>what to add and where :)
> >>>>>>
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