RE: Help with video package

[JohnD]

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:26:50 -0500
> From: Rick Thomas <address@hidden>
> To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Help with video package
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> To whom it may concern, I'm new to Octave, but have been using Matlab for
> years. I have lots of code written and would like to migrate to Octave for
several
> reasons. I've installed the latest version and additional packages.
Everything
> seems to work much like Matlab. The problem is the video package. I need
to
> process images and/or avi movie files. No problem in Matlab. I've gotten
video-
> 1.0.2.tar.gz and video-1.0.1_newffmpeg.tar.gz. I've tried everything from
the
> manual to try to install and load. Every other package that I've installed
and
> loaded works except for the video package.  I don't know what else to do
and
> would appreciate a fix, if available. Thanks!
> Regards,
> --Rick--

What OS are you using? If you are using Windows (mxe-octave), the ffmpeg
library and support libraries for it are not included.
See also Bug #46331 and # 46332 and patch # 8786