libavcodec-dev Theora issue (Ubuntu 9.10 x86-64)

[Emanuele Oriani]

Hi,

I'm developing a C++ application to measure the PSNR (and other stats) 
of multiple video files.
To access video streams I decided to rely on libavcodec, so I installed 
libavcodec-dev package to get the header files (I want to use it as a 
shared library).
Currently everything works but Theora video streams. When I open such 
streams I get corrupted frames (wrong colours and unrecognizable 
images), while when other streams are opened (h264/xvid/wmv/...) 
everything is fine.
Apart that the header file in that package is old (it doesn't export 
avcodec_decode_video2 function), I can't find the function 
(avcodec_decode_video2) even with dlsym once the library has been loaded 
(other functions like avcodec_decode_video, deprecated, are found).
I guess that the default libavcodec.so.52 and header files that come 
with that package are old/deprecated, am I correct?

When instead I liked static libraries from the SVN FFmpeg source, the 
function avcodec_decode_video2 was found and Theora video streams are 
now properly read and decoded (with both avcodec_decode_video and 
avcodec_decode_video2).

I would not like to use static libraries in my project, but I'd rather 
have an updated libavcodec.so.

Can you please look into that?

Regards,
Ema.

Ps. I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 x86-64/
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