problem compiling 0.9~alpha

[Carl Karsten]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Brendan Pike
<brendan at dbinformatics.com.au> wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:59:24PM +0930, Brendan Pike wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Can someone please help with me with a compile error. I'm keen to try
>>>  out the new 16:9 / 4:3 override feature so I'm trying to compile 0.9~alpha.
>>>
>>
>> You don't need to - it's on the 0.8.x branch as well.
>>
>
> Neat, I didn't see it in the Changelog, guess I should of checked the git
> logs.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> root at Studio:~/dvswitch_git_master/master# rm CMakeCache.txt ; cmake .
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> root at Studio:~/dvswitch_git_master/master# make
>>> [ 6%] Built target dvsink-command
>>> [ 13%] Built target dvsink-files
>>> [ 22%] Built target dvsource-alsa
>>> [ 29%] Built target dvsource-dvgrab
>>> [ 37%] Built target dvsource-file
>>> [ 39%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/dvswitch.dir/dvswitch.o
>>> In file included from
>>>  /home/bedlore/dvswitch_git_master/master/src/dvswitch.cpp:18:
>>> /home/bedlore/dvswitch_git_master/master/src/avcodec_wrap.h:19: error:
>>>  ‘AVPacket’ has not been declared
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> It looks like you need newer ffmpeg libraries.  (Though it should be
>> possible for me to add a workaround for this.)
>>
>
> Thanks, that would be good for the less technical aware like myself :)
>
> For general interest I screwed around trying to get Jack to provide input
> monitoring and couldn't get it to. Oddly I could hear the input when I
> killed DVSwitch. Even the "dvsink-command -- playdv" suggestion didn't work,
> playdv came up and displayed the picture fine (in 4:3 although I'm still
> using an older 0.8 release) but with no sound.

Oh right... I think there is something wrong with dvsource-alsa - I
was trying to verify and dropped the ball.

a symptom is dvsink-file foo.dv, then load foo.dv into kino, hit play
and get "#no audio" for each frame.  but mplayer foo.dv plays it fine.
 Dan D had a suggestion for hacking the lib that is incorrectly
reporting "no audio" - and that's as far as I got.

try
dvsink-command -- mplayer -



-- 
Carl K