Avifile-0.7.38

Introduction to Avifile

The Avifile package contains an AVI video file player, tools and support libraries. This is useful for viewing and editing AVI files.

Package information

Installation of Avifile

Install Avifile by running the following commands:

install -d /usr/lib/avifile-0.7/win32 &&
tar xzvf ../binaries-011002.tgz -C /usr/lib/avifile-0.7 &&
./autogen.sh &&
./configure &&
make maintainer-clean &&
./autogen.sh &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-qt-prefix=/opt/qt \
--with-win32-path=/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/win32 &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

./autogen.sh && ./configure && make maintainer-clean && ./autogen.sh: The author of this package used the old autoconf which leads to problems like configure not being able to detect some libraries and compilation errors. We fix this by rebuilding the configuration scripts.

Contents

The Avifile package contains aviplay, avibench, avifile-config, mmxnow-config, avirecompress, avicap, avirec, kv4lsetup, avicat, avitype and avimake.

Description

aviplay

aviplay manages the input formats, the CODECs and the output formats to display AVI video files on your screen.

avibench

avibench performs a measurement of the AVI file support library's performance for a file.

avifile-config

avifile-config is run by configure for programs wishing to link to the Avifile library.

mmxnow-config

mmxnow-config is run by configure for programs wishing to link to the mmxnow library.

avirecompress

avirecompress is a widget that takes an input file of one CODEC type and converts it into a video file of another CODEC.

avicap

avicap is a widget that displays acquired video from a Video For Windows (vfw) compatible device, like a webcam or a TV-tuner.

avirec

avirec is a command-line video recording tool.

kv4lsetup

kv4lsetup is a small tool which tells video4linux about the current video mode

avicat

avicat takes a set of AVI files and combines them into a single file.

avitype

avitype will read and display AVI file header information.

avimake

avimake takes a set of JPG images and creates a movie.