Video package

The video package is part of the Octave Forge project and tries to implement the video functions from matlab. It should compile with ffmpeg and libav.

Installation

on Debian Jessie using "pkg -forge"

sudo apt-get install libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libavcodec-dev

On the Octave prompt:

>> pkg install -forge video

on CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) with GNU Octave Version 3.8.2

yum install octave-devel
yum install libvorbis  yasm freetype zlib bzip2 faac lame speex libvpx libogg  libtheora  x264 XviD openjpeg15 opencore-amr
wget https://libav.org/releases/libav-11.4.tar.gz
tar xzf libav-11.4.tar.gz
cd libav-11.4
./configure --enable-pic
make -j 4

as root:

make install

On the Octave prompt:

>> pkg install -forge video

On Windows

using official mxe-build and ffmpeg binaries

This is at the moment the preferred way for windows users and assumes that you've installed Octave from the official MXE build from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/ to the default path.

Download the ffmpeg binaries for windows from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/. You need the "32-bit Dev" and "32-bit Shared" archive. These instructions were tested with

• ffmpeg-20160105-git-68eb208-win32-shared.7z
• ffmpeg-20160105-git-68eb208-win32-dev.7z

Now

• Extract the bin/*.dll from ffmpeg-20160105-git-68eb208-win32-shared.7z to C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.0\bin
• Extract include/* from ffmpeg-20160105-git-68eb208-win32-dev.7z to C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.0\include (You should now, for example, see C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.0\include\libavutil\version.h)
• Extract lib/* from ffmpeg-20160105-git-68eb208-win32-dev.7z to C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.0\lib

Compile and install from Octave with

pkg -verbose -forge install video

Load it before any usage:

pkg load video

mxe-octave

You can also use mxe-octave to include ffmpeg, there is already a target for it. Future versions of MXE-Octave builds will already have video included.