[Ffmpeg-devel] RE: Image formats missing?

[Colin Dunlop]

Hi,

I'm just reposting to ask if anybody else has managed
to build ffmpeg on Windows recently with more image
reading support than just GIF?

Cheers for any tips.

Colin.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Dunlop [mailto:colin at mve.com] 
> Sent: 17 July 2006 15:28
> To: 'ffmpeg-devel at mplayerhq.hu'
> Subject: Image formats missing?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to turn a bunch of jpegs into an AVI movie.
> 
> I've compiled the latest svn ffmpeg on Windows following the
> guidelines of generating a Visual C++ compatible version:
> http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC26
> I'm using MINGW and MSYS latest versions and all compiled ok.
> 
> However aside from the already discussed .dll.xxx versioning
> problems, there appears to be only GIF support in ffmpeg. I
> noticed that the code for the image formats is commented
> out in "libavformat/allformats.h and .cxx" by a #if 0 block.
> 
> I read most of the docs and faq and compatibility notes
> but don't see anything about how I get sgi, png, jpeg, or
> tiff support added to the "configure" script anywhere - and
> beside it looks like the current #if 0 block will stop this
> anyway.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers. I have versions of jpeg, png, libz
> and tiff compiled up separately.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Colin.
> 
> 
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> 
> WindowsXP SP2 x86
> MINGW latest
> MSYS latest (with MSVS 2003 vcvars.bat addition)
> MSVS 2003 (7.1)
> 
> Just try single file to test for now.
> 
> $ ffmpeg.exe -i ./vw.jpg -vcodec msmpeg4v2 ./out.avi
> FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
>   configuration:  --enable-shared --disable-static 
> --enable-memalign-hack 
>   libavutil version: 49.0.0
>   libavcodec version: 51.10.0
>   libavformat version: 50.5.0
>   built on Jul 17 2006 11:48:34, gcc: 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
> ./vw.jpg: Unknown format
> 
> $ ffmpeg -formats
> ...
> 
> Image formats (filename extensions, if any, follow):
>  DE gif    gif
> 
> ...
>