Compile hints for MAC OS/XCompiling the mjpegtools for MAC OS/X can be a straightforward task.
One problem you will very likely have is if you don't have the the shared libraries (like: SDL, libdv, glib, gtk and so on) that mjpegtools depends on. Without at least some of those libraries it is simply not possible to build mjpegtools while if others are missing then mjpegtools will have limited functionality (without SDL the playback applications yuvplay can not be build, without libdv DV data can not be processed, and so on). The tools you likely have to install before you can compile the
mjpegtools are recent versions of: automake, autoconf, and libtool
You have to put the /usr/local/bin first
in the path so that you don't get Apple's 'libtool' and 'libtoolize'
programs (which despite their names have absolutely nothing to do with
the GNU libtool program and will not work with autoconf/automake).
For display purposes (yuvplay) the SDL is used and that is very OS/X friendly and uses the native video subsystem so that it is not necessary to have XFree86 installed. Building the SDL is extremely easy and simple (./configure; make; make install). http://www.libsdl.org/index.php If mjpegtools' DV capability is going to be needed then libdv (http://libdv.sourceforge.net) is going to be needed as well. The library portion builds easily enough but the 'playdv' program is OSS audio specific and either needs to be edited or removed from the Makefile (encodedv also is linux/x86 specific and needs attention). And since libdv needs libpopt that'll have to be built, or download it from the OpenDarwin site. As an alternative to libdv (which is also needed for MPlayer to play raw DV files) you can also use ffmpeg's libavcodec/dv decoder and the smilutils - both ffmpeg and the smilutils are OS/X friendly and build without trouble. That should be all the required items. A lot of the items can be found in the Opendarwin ports collection but other than the libglib/gtk you might want to fetch/build most of it from the original sources (or the CVS version). It is almost certainly a good idea to place all of the built/ported libraries and include files in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include because that is the default for almost all autoconf based programs such as mjpegtools. If you want the latest version of the mjpegtools you should
check the cvs version of the mjpegtools. Checking out the mjpegtools
from the cvs works like that:
We don't say that binary packages are bad in every way. We are not that familiar with compiling the binary stuff, and packing it. If someone creates that packages we will welcome them, and add them to the file releases on sourceforge. For every other user that wants to download binary stuff. Without compiling for the own machine you can download : mpeg2enc and mplex. If you have problems downloding the versions you shoud hold the "Option" key (labelled with ALT on german keyboards) and press than the link !!
If you want a newer version of the mjpegtools. You can download the static compiled CVS version from the 29.August.2004. This is also binary stuff. They should work well on a OSX 10.3.x but might not work on a OSX 10.2. or older. osx.cvs.tar.gz We also provide two precompiled binaries. Note: If you have
problems downloading them e.g. get lines of greek), then hold
the "Option" key (labelled with ALT on german keyboards) before
you click the link!
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Brought into that from by Bernhard Praschinger (waldviertler at users.sourceforge.net). Steven M. Schultz (sms at 2bsd.com) provided the information. If you really want to know why we wrote that text. Here is a nice saying that describes why:
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