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If you compile Ardour from source, or have installed it from a 3rd party repository, three additional tools will need to be installed manually, which are used by Ardour to provide video features:
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+</p>
-<ul>
+<ul>
<li>xjadeo (the video monitor application): <a href="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/" title="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://xjadeo.sf.net</a></li>
- <li>harvid (a video decoder used for the thumbnail timeline): <a href="http://x42.github.io/harvid/" title="http://x42.github.io/harvid/" rel="nofollow">http://x42.github.com/harvid/</a></li>
- <li>ffmpeg, ffprobe (used to import/export video, extract soundtracks and query video information): <a href="http://ffmpeg.org" title="http://ffmpeg.org" rel="nofollow">http://ffmpeg.org</a></li>
+ <li>harvid (a video decoder used for the thumbnail timeline): <a href="http://x42.github.io/harvid/" title="http://x42.github.io/harvid/" rel="nofollow">http://x42.github.com/harvid/</a></li>
+ <li>ffmpeg, ffprobe (used to import/export video, extract soundtracks and query video information): <a href="http://ffmpeg.org" title="http://ffmpeg.org" rel="nofollow">http://ffmpeg.org</a></li>
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- All four applications need to be found in <code>$PATH</code> (e.g.
- <code>$HOME/bin</code> or <code>/usr/local/bin</code>). For convenience the
- binary releases of harvid include ffmpeg_harvid and ffprobe_harvid, but if
- your distribution provides suitable ffmpeg commands you can also just create
+ All four applications need to be found in <code>$PATH</code> (e.g.
+ <code>$HOME/bin</code> or <code>/usr/local/bin</code>). For convenience the
+ binary releases of harvid include ffmpeg_harvid and ffprobe_harvid, but if
+ your distribution provides suitable ffmpeg commands you can also just create
symbolic links:
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<kbd class="cmd lin">sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg_harvid</kbd>
-<kbd class="cmd lin">sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ffprobe /usr/bin/ffprobe_harvid</kbd>
+<kbd class="cmd lin">sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ffprobe /usr/bin/ffprobe_harvid</kbd>
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Binary releases are available from ardour.org as well as an installer script: <a href="https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/tools/videotimeline/install_video_tools.sh" title="https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/tools/videotimeline/install_video_tools.sh" rel="nofollow">install_video_tools.sh</a>.