[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.
> 
> 
> That's strange -  what OS are seeing on? I'm running it ok on Ubuntu 8.04 32
> bit. I just committed some new changes for the latest IOCOM compatibility -
> and now have it decoding 960x720 H264 displaying on Ubuntu using Xvideo -
> tested ok on Linux and OSX and Vista.
> 
> I have seen that black window problem before - usually it was fixed by doing
> a make clean and then rebuilding.

I'm seeing it on several versions of Fedora, 32bit or 64bit. I don't 
enable the Xvideo option as it has issues with Xineramma when different 
GPUs are used. I'll look into it some more.

I'll release new Fedora VIC RPMs with the latest IOCOM compatibility, 
but with --enable-swscale


Cheers,
Doug