Re: Help with video package

[Rick Thomas]

John, I'm running Windows 7. I'll take a look at the bugs and patch you posted 
below. Any other help would be useful. Thanks!

Regards,
--Rick--

On Nov 20, 2015, at 10:20 AM, JohnD <address@hidden> wrote:

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>> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:26:50 -0500
>> From: Rick Thomas <address@hidden>
>> To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Help with video package
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>> To whom it may concern, I'm new to Octave, but have been using Matlab for
>> years. I have lots of code written and would like to migrate to Octave for
> several
>> reasons. I've installed the latest version and additional packages.
> Everything
>> seems to work much like Matlab. The problem is the video package. I need
> to
>> process images and/or avi movie files. No problem in Matlab. I've gotten
> video-
>> 1.0.2.tar.gz and video-1.0.1_newffmpeg.tar.gz. I've tried everything from
> the
>> manual to try to install and load. Every other package that I've installed
> and
>> loaded works except for the video package.  I don't know what else to do
> and
>> would appreciate a fix, if available. Thanks!
>> Regards,
>> --Rick--
> 
> What OS are you using? If you are using Windows (mxe-octave), the ffmpeg
> library and support libraries for it are not included.
> See also Bug #46331 and # 46332 and patch # 8786
>