Installing the Cisco OpenH264 Codec for WebCC on GNU/Linux

Batch processing machines must have the Cisco OpenH264 library installed in order to be able to generate small preview movies for WebCC. Because of copyright restriction, this codec must be downloaded off Cisco's servers as it is installed.

There are two ways to installing the Cisco OpenH264 library, both of which will automatically download the library and store it in the Harmony installation directory:

  • By running the openh264_control.sh script packaged with Harmony
  • By running the Harmony installation script with the -openh264 parameter.
NOTE Installing the Cisco OpenH264 library requires a working Internet connection.

  1. In a terminal, type in the following commands:

    $ cd /usr/local/ToonBoomAnimation/harmony[Edition]_20/lnx86_64/bin

    $ sudo ./openh264_control.sh

  2. When prompted, type i and press enter.

    The machine should now be able to generate preview movies for WebCC.

IMPORTANT In order to be able to generate preview movies for WebCC, a machine must also be configured to be a batch processing node for your database. For more information, see About Batch Processing.

  1. In a terminal, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the installation package.

    $ cd ~/Downloads

  1. Extract the package's contents in the directory.

    $ tar -xvzf ./name-of-package.tar.gz

  1. Switch to the directory in which the package's contents were extracted.

    $ cd name-of-package

  1. Run the installer with the -d parameter:

    $ sudo ./install -openh264

  2. When prompted, confirm that you want to proceed with the installation.

    The machine should now be able to generate preview movies for WebCC.

IMPORTANT In order to be able to generate preview movies for WebCC, a machine must also be configured to be a batch processing node for your database. For more information, see About Batch Processing.