octave-forge video package

[Christian Scholz]

Hi everyone,

I had some problems building the video package on my system using the 
code provided on the website.
After help from #octave I got it to work with the current svn and the 
following changes applied:

--- configure.ac        (revision 11765)
+++ configure.ac        (working copy)
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

 AC_CHECK_LIB([avformat], [av_write_frame], [],
              [AC_MSG_ERROR([$PACKAGE_NAME requires libavformat from 
FFmpeg])])
-AC_CHECK_LIB([avcodec], [av_malloc], [],
+AC_CHECK_LIB([avutil], [av_malloc], [],
              [AC_MSG_ERROR([$PACKAGE_NAME requires libavcodec from 
FFmpeg])])
 AC_CHECK_LIB([swscale], [sws_scale], [],
              [AC_MSG_ERROR([$PACKAGE_NAME requires libswscale from 
FFmpeg])])


because av_malloc is part of lavutil on  my system. Don't know if that 
counts as a bug, but I wanted to contribute that.

Also I'm really interessted in expanding the package, however I'm not 
familier with the octave source.
What I'm trying to do is to expand the aviread function in order to read 
multiple frames at once
(specified by an index vector, so that it works like its matlab 
counterpart).

Is there someone working on the package? Any hints on how to get 
familiar with the octave types and
classes, apart from reading through the whole source?

Best wishes,
Christian