Re: LiveCode 8 Library Component: MLT Video Editing Framework

2015-03-22 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi David, Module is a generic term with a specific meaning in MLT (and slightly different meanings in lots of other projects). Dependencies and how they're resolved tends to be platform specific. C code is just code and can be packaged up to be linked in a static or dynamic way. You have to r

Re: LiveCode 8 Library Component: MLT Video Editing Framework

2015-03-22 Thread David Bovill
Thanks so much for the reply Mark. I would like to understand the difference between module and dependent code sufficiently to be able to look at C code and its documentation and understand this issue. When a package manager (like brew) lists a bunch of things it is going to install is there a way

Re: LiveCode 8 Library Component: MLT Video Editing Framework

2015-03-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
The framework is free of dependencies and probably quite easy to wrap as a component for LiveCode 8. However, on it's own it doesn't do anything. There are lots of modules that make it incredibly powerful but they do have dependencies, some of them huge, like Qt. The video rendering is via SDL,