Re: Octave Video Package

[Philip Nienhuis]

PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> > Inside the Octave installation I think this will only be useful if the
> > Octave binary installer for Windows was built with the --enable-dev-tools
> > option.
> > Even then, I doubt your suggestion will work as autotools and m4 etc are
> > lacking. AFAIU the bash shell is merely meant to be able to run Octave in
> > gdb on the Windows side.
> > It could be that it is fairly easy to augment the bash shell with the
> > required development tools; on the mingw site compiled build tools are
> > available.
>
> I was able to compile ffmpeg with the installed tools. make and gcc
> are present and the video package had configure script.

Yes I ignored that Octave should be able to install packages and needs 
some basic tools for that.  Nice to know that some dependencies (that 
are usually built outside Octave) can be built as well.

> > Although libavformat.dll, libavcodec.dd, etc aren't present in my
> > OCTAVE_HOME/bin folder, it seems that ffmpeg *IS* (or rather: should be)
> > included in the mxe-octave build:
> > - http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/c8c394328c54/src
> > - http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/28fa86d2cf21
> > - http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/log/c8c394328c54/src/ffmpeg.mk
> >
> > Maybe it is related to having Octave for 64-bit windows running, I don't
> > know.
> > As I'm also interested in the video package I'll have a look one of these
> > days, but not now as I have several other priorities.
>
> Please tell your observation in this.

In the mean time JohnD already enlightened us here (see his post).

Philip