The Avifile package contains an AVI video file player, tools and support libraries. This is useful for viewing and editing AVI files.
Download (HTTP): http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/avifile/avifile-0.7-0.7.38.tar.gz
Download size: 2.8 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 46.0 MB
Estimated build time: 4.28 SBU
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 |
./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.
The Avifile package contains aviplay, avibench, avifile-config, mmxnow-config, avirecompress, avicap, avirec, kv4lsetup, avicat, avitype and avimake.
aviplay manages the input formats, the CODECs and the output formats to display AVI video files on your screen.
avibench performs a measurement of the AVI file support library's performance for a file.
avifile-config is run by configure for programs wishing to link to the Avifile library.
mmxnow-config is run by configure for programs wishing to link to the mmxnow library.
avirecompress is a widget that takes an input file of one CODEC type and converts it into a video file of another CODEC.
avicap is a widget that displays acquired video from a Video For Windows (vfw) compatible device, like a webcam or a TV-tuner.
avirec is a command-line video recording tool.
kv4lsetup is a small tool which tells video4linux about the current video mode
avicat takes a set of AVI files and combines them into a single file.
avitype will read and display AVI file header information.
avimake takes a set of JPG images and creates a movie.