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Luca Barbato edited this page Apr 15, 2015 · 12 revisions

The bmdtools are a collection of minimal applications to capture and playback using Blackmagic Devices Decklink hardware.

Installing

bmdtools needs a recent version of libav installed. In order to build it make sure to have the development headers installed (the Gentoo users can just emerge =libav-9999 to get the current libav master, the Ubuntu and related distribution can leverage this repository and apt-get install libavformat-devlibswscale-dev to get everything that is needed, in the future you might need to apt-get install libavresample-dev libavscale-dev.

Support

The bmdcapture software is mainly developed in my spare time, I can try my best to help if you have issues and I try to fix reported bugs once they are reported, but I cannot provide free support for software I do not use such as FFbmc. If you have problems please do try to reproduce the issue using avconv and the libraries from the current libav master.

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