[PD] advise on making mjpeg, pdp and libquicktime happy

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looks like mjpeg in this case is provided by libavcodec that is then
used by mencoder - make sure that chain is working right would be my
recommendation

Wed, 2007-10-17 at 03:06 +0200, danja vasiliev wrote:
> im running ubuntu feisty 7.04, libquicktime plugins are in standard
> location:
> 
> danja at t43:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
> 4.0
> 
> danja at t43:~$ ls /usr/local/lib/libquicktime/
> lqt_audiocodec.la  lqt_faac.la   lqt_ffmpeg.la  lqt_mjpeg.la
> lqt_png.la     lqt_videocodec.la
> lqt_audiocodec.so  lqt_faac.so   lqt_ffmpeg.so  lqt_mjpeg.so
> lqt_png.so     lqt_videocodec.so
> lqt_dv.la          lqt_faad2.la  lqt_lame.la    lqt_opendivx.la
> lqt_rtjpeg.la  lqt_vorbis.la
> lqt_dv.so          lqt_faad2.so  lqt_lame.so    lqt_opendivx.so
> lqt_rtjpeg.so  lqt_vorbis.so
> 
> so i just did this and noting has changed...
> 
> danja at t43:~$ export LIBQUICKTIME_PLUGIN_DIR=/usr/local/lib/libquicktime
> danja at t43:~$ pd
> tk scaling is 1.22249724972
> quicktime_delete_vcodec_stub called
> 
> the last line is what PD spits out when i try opening my mjpeg.
> mjpeg i make using MEncoder 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1
> like this:
> for i in $( ls ); do mencoder mf://$i/*.jpg -mf fps=6 -o $i.avi -ovc
> lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg; done
> 
> where else to look?
> 
> danja
> 
> 
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > 
> > Which version of GNU/Linux are you running?  Your quicktime plugins
> > might be in a different place than Pd-extended expects.  You can set it
> > using the LIBQUICKTIME_PLUGIN_DIR env var, so something like:
> > 
> > export LIBQUICKTIME_PLUGIN_DIR=/path/to/your/libquicktime/plugins
> > 
> > .hc
> > 
> > 
> > On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:35 PM, danja vasiliev wrote:
> > 
> >> hello dear all,
> >> pardon me for cross posting this but the issue seems to be somewhat
> >> awkward - for the last several days i was trying to get [pdp_qt] take my
> >> mjpeg video files but was miserably failing:
> >>
> >> ---
> >> pdp_qt: video stream found (640x480 pixels, 6 fps, 897 frames, MJPG
> >> codec)
> >> pdp_qt: WARNING: unsupported video codec
> >> pdp_qt: ERROR: no usable video stream found.
> >> ---
> 
> 
> 
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