Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-1388

Chapter 42. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

XviD-1.3.7

Introduction to XviD

XviD is an MPEG-4 compliant video CODEC.

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Note

This version of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable version of the System V books.

Package Information

XviD Dependencies

Optional

yasm-1.3.0 or NASM-3.01

Installation of XviD

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Note

This package tarball expands to xvidcore, not the expected xvidcore-1.3.7.

First, fix a problem when building with gcc-15: 

sed -i '/typedef int bool;/d' src/encoder.h

Install XviD by running the following commands: 

cd build/generic &&
sed -i 's/^LN_S=@LN_S@/& -f -v/' platform.inc.in &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

sed -i '/libdir.*STATIC_LIB/ s/^/#/' Makefile &&
make install &&

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.3 &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.7/examples &&
install -v -m644 ../../doc/* /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.7 &&
install -v -m644 ../../examples/* \
    /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.7/examples

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/^LN_S=@LN_S@/& -f -v/' platform.inc.in: Fix error during make install if reinstalling or upgrading.

sed -i '/libdir.*STATIC_LIB/ s/^/#/' Makefile: This command disables installing the static library.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libxvidcore.so
Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.7

Short Descriptions

libxvidcore.so

provides functions to encode and decode most MPEG-4 video data