Re: software for manipulating AVI files

[Jon H. Davis]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:46 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Sep-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
> | I don't know about it's dependencies, but I think Gstreamer
> | (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/) would be nice for Octave. It's a
> | multi-format library, so you would get more then just avi support. It's
> | a LGPL library and it's a very active project.
> 
> Yes, I suppose it might be nice to have bindings for such a general
> purpose library.  But it seems like overkill for what I want, which is
> just a simple way to read and write a particular file format.  Looking
> at the gstreamer docs does not help much for me as the unfamiliar
> jargon has my head spinning.  Perhaps there is someone on the list
> familiar with gstreamer who can point the way to implementing
> something simple like reading and writing AVI files?
> 
> jwe

        The transcode program (installs along with mplayer on my debian
systems) handles avi files along with a lot of other things.  I suspect
that once support for video/multimedia formats is in octave, pressure
for the sorts of functionality in transcode and gstreamer will rise.
There are just too many different formats floating around.

        Jon
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