Survex the Movie

Wookey wookey@aleph1.co.uk
Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:13:02 +0000


+++ Olly Betts [04-02-24 14:11 +0000]:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:30:07PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > +++ Olly Betts [04-02-24 12:46 +0000]:
> > > I've redone Mark's presentation code in the development version.  This
> > > allows you to record a "fly through" and play it back 

> > neat! Does this involve any more dependencies (I presume you are using
> > some external library to do the encoding
> 
> Yes, I'm using libavcodec from ffmpeg, mostly as it's the only option I
> found which was GPL compatible and also worked on Windows.  It's not in
> debian directly, but there are unofficial packages[1], and it seems to be
> inside libavifile-0.7c102 (there's a libavcodec shared library, but no
> corresponding avcodec.h header in the -dev).

OK, that'll have to be a 'recommends' or whatever is allowed on things not
present in main. I wonder if it's not there due to patent worries or simply
because it's not packaged.

Wookey
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