source: multimedia/videoutils/avifile.xml@ 04e3157b

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<sect1 id="avifile" xreflabel="Avifile-&avifile-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="avifile.html"?>
<title>Avifile-&avifile-version;</title>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Avifile</application></title>

<para>The <application>Avifile</application> package contains an
<acronym>AVI</acronym> video file player, tools and
support libraries. This is useful for viewing and editing
<acronym>AVI</acronym> files.</para>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&avifile-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&avifile-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &avifile-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &avifile-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time: &avifile-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Required <acronym>CODEC</acronym>s: <ulink
url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/avifile/binaries-011002.tgz"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>

<sect3><title><application>Avifile</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="qt"/> and <xref linkend="SDL"/></para></sect4>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>, <xref linkend="xvid"/>, <xref
linkend="libmad"/>, <xref linkend="libvorbis"/> and <xref
linkend="lame"/></para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Avifile</application></title>

<para>Install <application>Avifile</application> by running the 
following commands:</para>
<screen><userinput><command>install -d /usr/lib/avifile-0.7/win32 &amp;&amp;
tar xzvf ../binaries-011002.tgz -C /usr/lib/avifile-0.7 &amp;&amp;
./autogen.sh &amp;&amp;
./configure &amp;&amp;
make maintainer-clean &amp;&amp;
./autogen.sh &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --with-win32-path=/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/win32 &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para><command>./autogen.sh &amp;&amp; ./configure &amp;&amp;
make maintainer-clean &amp;&amp; ./autogen.sh</command>: 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.
</para>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>Avifile</application> package contains 
<command>aviplay</command>, <command>avibench</command>, <command>
avifile-config</command>, <command>mmxnow-config</command>, <command>
avirecompress</command>, <command>avicap</command>, <command>avirec</command>, 
<command>kv4lsetup</command>, <command>avicat</command>,
<command>avitype</command> and <command>avimake</command>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>aviplay</title>
<para><command>aviplay</command> manages the input formats, the
<acronym>CODEC</acronym>s and the 
output formats to display <acronym>AVI</acronym> video files on your screen.
</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avibench</title>
<para><command>avibench</command> performs a measurement of the <application>
AVI file support</application> library's performance for a file.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avifile-config</title>
<para><command>avifile-config</command> is run by configure for programs 
wishing to link to the  <application>Avifile</application> library.
</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>mmxnow-config</title>
<para><command>mmxnow-config</command> is run by configure for programs wishing 
to link to the mmxnow library.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avirecompress</title>
<para><command>avirecompress</command> is a widget that takes an input file of 
one <acronym>CODEC</acronym> type and converts it into a video file of
another <acronym>CODEC</acronym>.</para>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>avicap</title>
<para><command>avicap</command> is a widget that displays acquired video from a 
Video For Windows (vfw) compatible device, like a webcam or a TV-tuner.</para>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>avirec</title>
<para><command>avirec</command> is a command-line video recording tool.</para>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>kv4lsetup</title>
<para><command>kv4lsetup</command> is a small tool which tells video4linux 
about the current video mode.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avicat</title>
<para><command>avicat</command> takes a set of <acronym>AVI</acronym> files and 
combines them into a single file.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avitype</title>
<para><command>avitype</command> will read and display <acronym>AVI</acronym> 
file header information.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avimake</title>
<para><command>avimake</command> takes a set of <acronym>JPG</acronym> images 
and creates a movie.</para></sect3>

</sect2>

</sect1>