[GRASS-user] Compile grass6_devel with ffmpeg support?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 06:43 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 18:17 -0800, Hamish wrote:
> > Nikos wrote:
> > > thanks for the support. I can't *locate* the avformat.h file under my
> > > system. I can't find any ffmpeg-dev package in the ubuntu repositories.
> > 
> > try "apt-file" to search for which package contains a file. on debian:
> > 
> > $ apt-file search avformat.h
> > libavformat-dev: usr/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h
> > 
> > it may be that the FFMPEG files are not on the official repo due to
> > patent restrictions in certain countries, etc., in which case they'll be
> > in another (probably well signposted) repo somewhere you just have to
> > find them.
> > 
> > 
> > Hamish
> 
> Hamish,
> 
> thanks. That seems to push me further. Although now I miss another
> file :D. That is "swscale.h". Anyhow, I'll continue like that and
> hopefully I'll get all dependencies installed.
> 
> Cheers, Nikos

FiNaLlY!!! Those two packages... I lost so much time looking in the
wrong direction. Why this change from previous Ubuntu-versions? Well, I
should ask that somewhere else.

Note (to self): add extra dependencies to get ffmpeg support when
compiling grass' source code under Ubuntu 64bit.
sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev libswscale-dev

Note (to self)2: The libavformat-dev is getting installed (I think) when
executing "sudo apt-get install ffmpeg". The "libswscale-dev" package is
NOT installed.

Kind regards, Nikos