Beginner's Guide to Setup Xuggler

Question

To work with Xuggler you need xuggle-xuggler-5.4.jar. According to the people who made this, most users only need the above-mentioned JAR file. However, this is

Answer 1

The following files list the other jars which xuggle depends upon:

• ivy.xml
• pom.xml

You can read these and then manually retrieve them from the appropriate repository, but I would submit it's simpler to start using a dependency manager.

You asked how to download these dependencies, well ivy has a convenient command-line mode of operation. (See example below)

Eclipse integration is very tough.... Once you've downloaded the jar you could try and generate the ".classpath" file or just manually add each jar via the Eclipse GUI. The reason I don't recommend this approach is because there are Eclipse plugins for both Maven and Ivy that would do this for you automatically.

Example

Run ivy from command-line as follows:

java -jar ivy.jar -settings ivysettings.xml -dependency xuggle xuggle-xuggler 5.4 -retrieve "lib/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"

It will retrieve xuggle and all its dependencies into a "lib" directory as follows:

├── ivysettings.xml
└── lib
    ├── commons-cli-1.1.jar
    ├── logback-classic-1.0.0.jar
    ├── logback-core-1.0.0.jar
    ├── slf4j-api-1.6.4.jar
    └── xuggle-xuggler-5.4.jar

ivysettings.xml

This file tells ivy to retrieve jars from either Maven Central, or the Maven repository provided by the Xuggle project.