Re: software for manipulating AVI files

[Stefan van der Walt]

Hi John

Check out my Octave-FFMpeg wrapper at

http://www.dsp.sun.ac.za/~stefan

Regards
Stéfan

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:36:37PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Does anyone here know of any good free software (GPL compatible
> license required) for manipulating AVI files?  I'd like to be able to
> implement the at least the following AVI functions in Octave:
> 
>   addframe  Add frame to AVI file
>   avifile   Create new AVI file
>   aviinfo   Return information about AVI file
>   aviread   Read AVI file
>   close     Close AVI file
> 
> I know about the libavifile-0.7 package that is in Debian unstable,
> but it seems to force a dependency on X, and I'd prefer to avoid that
> if possible since I'm really only wanting to read and write the files,
> not display them.  Also, libavifile-0.7 is only in Debian unstable,
> and it doesn't seem like a very active project.  Are there any other
> alternatives?



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