[theora-dev] RE: autoconf problem

Dan Miller dan at on2.com
Wed May 28 20:37:11 PDT 2003



nevermind, SDL wasn't installed properly.  Not that this was in any way a useful or clear error message...

 ___  Dan Miller
(++,) Founder, On2 Technologies

<p>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Miller [mailto:owner-theora-dev at xiph.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:43 PM
> To: theora-dev at xiph.org
> Subject: autoconf problem
> 
> 
> ./configure: line 524: syntax error near unexpected token 
> `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libtheora,0.0)'
> ./configure: line 524: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libtheora,0.0)'
> 
> I'm sure I'm doing something pro-stupid, but ---
> my setup works fine for ogg & vorbis.
> autoconf ver 2.13
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p4 if that matters
> 
> hey let's put tool version numbers into the README
> 
> -dan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan Miller on behalf of Dan Miller
> Sent:	Wed 5/28/2003 1:20 PM
> To:	theora-dev at xiph.org
> Cc:	
> Subject:	new patch
> [standard disclaimer about my mail format]
>  
> in ftp.vp3.com/theora
> user: vp3
> pass: vp3dev
> theora_dbm_5-28.zip
>  
> this implements a bitstream change; the header now contains a 
> compressed huffman tree rather than the frequency counts (as 
> discussed)
>  
> pardon my inability to use diff correctly.  The change in 
> toplevel.c is trivial (new function names & params)
> huffman.c is the important one.  I doubt anyone has touched 
> it in a while so I suggest you use this (pulled out of CVS in 
> the last couple days)
>  
> -dan
>  
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mike Melanson [mailto:melanson at pcisys.net] 
> Sent: Tue 5/27/2003 2:55 PM 
> To: theora-dev at xiph.org 
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [theora-dev] resolution issues
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 May 2003, Henry Mason  wrote:
> 
> > On a somewhat related note, is there any reason to
> > encode at dimensions which are multiples of 32 in
> > order to have full superblocks? How much do VP3
> > superblocks play a part in the video compression
> > efficiency?
> 
>         Well, a good reason to encode at superblock 
> boundaries is that it
> makes an encoder's life (and source code) much simpler...:) 
> Actually, to
> make it *really* easy, with no corner cases, the dimensions need to be
> divisible by 64 (so the U & V planes line up on 32-sample boundaries).
> 
>         I understand that the point of the superblocks and 
> the associated
> Hilbert coding scan is to maximize proximate similarities 
> (based on the
> principle that pixels close to each other tend to be 
> similar). This will
> be true for most of the image frame; only the outlying areas 
> (right and
> bottom) will not have the benefit of as many neighboring pixels.
> 
> --
>         -Mike Melanson
> 
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