Octave: Install Video Package in Windows

[Yon Kahlon]

Hi,

I've been trying to get the video package installed on Octave. I am running Windows 7. I'm trying to install v1.2.1, and I get this error: "configure: error: Package requirements (libavutil) were not met:"

I have tried several things, but nothing has worked so far, and I was wondering if someone has managed to get this working?

Based on Andy's quote from StackOverflow:
"video 1.2.1 is now ready to be installed on GNU/Linux with "pkg -forge". For Windows you'll need ffmpeg which can be built using mxe-octave or download a binary lib. The dev files for ffmpeg are here: ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds"

I have tried mxe-octave. But I can't get binutils-2.25.1 to install. I get this error:

"install -d '/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32'
mv /home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ar /
home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/as /
home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/dlltool /
home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld
/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.bfd
/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/nm
/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/objcopy
/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/objdump
/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ranlib
/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/strip '
/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32'

mv: cannot remove `/home/kahlon/mxe-octave/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.bfd': No such file or directory"

even though "ld.bfd.exe" does exists. When I execute this command manually, it works fine, so I'm not sure what is going wrong - also, "ld.bfd.exe" does exist  in the destination directory... so really not sure why this is going wrong

Andy said that an alternative solution would be to download ffmpeg dev files, but I am not sure what to do with them? I've merged the ffmpeg "lib" and "include" folder with that of Octave. But that didn't fix the issue when installing the video package.

Thanks,

Jonathan