VbcRender is a simple command line tool that allows users to render videos from VBCTOOL files. It is designed to have a relatively small memory footprint for large trees.
VbcRender is currently experimental and does not have any binary release packages. This section explains how to check out the Github repository and build the code.
VbcRender makes extensive use of the Cairo, GLib, and GStreamer libraries for drawing and video encoding. For input, command line argument parsing, and path manipulations, the Boost libraries Filesystem, Iostreams, and Program Options are required. CMake is used as a build system. VBCTOOL is required to build VbcRender and will automatically be downloaded using Wget during the build process.
The required library and program versions are:
Boost >= 1.46
Cairo >= 1.2
CMake >= 3.1
GLib >= 2.0
GStreamer >= 1.0
This section explains step by step how to build VbcRender. This guide assumes a GNU/Linux system and GNU make as the standard build system for CMake.
First, we clone the latest state of the repository.
git clone https://github.com/mirhahn/vbcrender.git
Then we change into the new working copy's root directory and create a subdirectory called build.
cd vbcrender
mkdir build
Next, we generate build files inside the build directory. For most purposes, it is desirable to build an optimized version without debugging symbols.
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
For development purposes, it may be preferrable to build a version with debugging symbols and additional debugging code.
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
Finally, we invoke make to build vbcrender.
make
This should generate a standalone executable ./vbcrender that can be moved to a different directory without any repercussions. To see a list of command line arguments, type
./vbcrender --help
- Mirko Hahn - Initial developer - mirhahn
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later - see the LICENSE.md file for details
- The VBC file format was developed by Sebastian Leipert at the University of Cologne