[AG-TECH] MacOS vic for 3.3 not H264 enabled??

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Gurcharan,

> i am running the 3.3 version of AG for MacOS on an iMac and Snow Leopard,
> and the vic windows are all gray even though bits are flowing.
> 
> if i run an older version of vic the windows render normally.
> 
> is H264 not enabled on the 3.3 version?

The default 3 clause BSD license VIC doesn't have the patent encumbered stuff enabled. The GPL VIC does and can be built on Leopard to Lion with the following on the command-line, you'll also need to install the yasm assembler which is available from ( http://yasm.tortall.net/Download.html )  :

svn co https://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/repos/mmedia/common/trunk common
svn co https://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/repos/mmedia/vic/branches/mpeg4 vic-mpeg4 vic

( cd common; ./configure ; make )
cd vic
./configure --enable-gpl
make


The --enable-gpl option downloads and builds x264 and ffmpeg required for H264 and mpeg-4 support.


Cheers,
Doug