ffmpegViewer

A stand-alone application to provide a graphical view of a ffmpeg compressed stream - as provided by the ffmpegServer module.

Dependencies

This application uses some 3rd party libraries:

• Qt4 - latest test with 4.8
• ffmpeg - latest test with 2.1.4 from Zeranoe FFmpeg

How to build

First ensure that you have the above 3rd party libraries installed. The Qt4 installation must be in your path and an EPICS environment (particularly the EPICS_BASE variable) must also be defined in the environment.

Set the FFMPEG_PREFIX environment variable to point to the installation directory of your ffmpeg library. Then build using qmake, make, make install.

Set the TARGET_PREFIX environment variable to point to the desired target installation directory

export TARGET_PREFIX=../install/
export FFMPEG_PREFIX=/path/to/ffmpeg/installation/
qmake
make
make install