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Build Movid on Ubuntu

The following instructions are for Ubuntu/Debian. They should be easily transferable to other linux distributions. Building from source on these distributions is really easy.

First, you have to install the opencv headers, git and the build-tools:
sudo apt-get install libcv-dev libcvaux-dev libhighgui-dev git-core build-essential

Then, you get the current development version of Movid:
git clone git://github.com/tito/Movid.git

Afterwards, we change to the Movid repo you just cloned:
cd Movid

It's time to compile, let's run make!
make

Now you should be able to use movid already. Try the simple-video preset:
./movid -l presets/simple-video.txt

Now that the daemon is running, you can simply open your webbrowser (needs to be Firefox 3.6 or some other browser with HTML5 and support for the canvas object. Javascript has to be enabled.) and navigate to the admin interface:
http://127.0.0.1:7500/

That's it! You can now play with Movid! If you have questions, feature requests, find bugs or want to help, please see the following page: « HowToContribute