[Sumover-dev] Re: Vic H264 compilation issues

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Piers,

> Thanks for your feedback. The issues you were seeing were largely down to 
> changes in ffmpeg - it is a fast changing library. However there was also 
> an error in vic' s configure script which I have now corrected - VIC's 
> configure script calls ffmpeg's configure script which sets things up so 
> that the ffmpeg libraries are installed into the local directory - thus 
> not needed root access. I've updated the repository to reflect the 
> updates.

With the recent removal of --enable-swscale in the configure script, I now 
get black thumbnails and video windows. Odd thing is that if MPEG-4 
transmission is enabled, then the thumbnails and videos suddenly start 
working and are no longer black (selecting other codecs doesn't have the 
same fixing effect).

It doesn't seem to matter if I'm using ffmpeg 0.5 or an earlier one, once I 
rebuild with --enable-swscale, VIC works fine.


Cheers,
Doug