HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[mc4man]

Hi mc4man

I've done some experiments.
It seems that now with Pangolin...

IF x264 is not installed
    THEN MEncoder is happy to build with libx264-dev
        ELSE
            IF x264 is installed
                THEN MEncoder won't build with libx264-dev

Maybe it's possible to force the compiler to ignore a static x264 and allow MEncoder to build with libx264-dev.
In the meantime, I've compiled x264 'shared' and removed libx264-dev.

Any which way you go should be ok. As far as using the x264 build as typical to this how-to for a mplayer/mencoder build with gcc > 4.4 -
If you add this to your mplayer configure then should go ok w/ the static only x264 -

--extra-libs-mencoder=-lx264

Though as mentioned see no real reason against building x264 as shared

[ron999]

Thanks mc4man but "--extra-libs-mencoder=-lx264" has not solved the issue.

When x264 static is installed the MPlayer config message still shows:-

Checking for x264 ... no (in FFmpeg: no)

[mc4man]

Ron - you're right - I was on a 12.10 install but then switched to 12.04 & forgot that I'd installed x264 as shared yesterday to ck.

(There are a couple of people frequenting the compiling forum that know the gcc changes fairly well if you are curious to pursue

[active1]

can anyone tell me the difference between make and make fprofiled ?
+what is the advantage from --enable-win32thread ? (i know it is for windows)
thanx

[rh10023]

Where is the usage part of this guide? Need to look up something on audio offsets.

[FakeOutdoorsman]

There was a small usage section of the guide but I removed it. It didn't address audio offsets though. I do plan on adding a new usage section, but it's low priority right now. So for now just consider this thread an interactive usage section or refer to "ffmpeg -h" or "man ffmpeg".

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

+1 for a usage guide, with all the changes to syntax recently I have got lost

[cantormath]

It appears that this file may have been moved:

:~$ git clone --depth 1 http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/ffmpeg/libvpx/.git/
error: The requested URL returned error: 501 while accessing http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

It appears that this file may have been moved:

:~$ git clone --depth 1 http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/ffmpeg/libvpx/.git/
error: The requested URL returned error: 501 while accessing http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

You seem to have snuck a "--depth 1" in there - not in the tut ?

git clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Works for me:

$ git clone --depth 1 http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
Cloning into 'libvpx'...
remote: Counting objects: 5011, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2386/2386), done.
remote: Total 5011 (delta 3626), reused 3710 (delta 2501)
Receiving objects: 100% (5011/5011), 3.89 MiB | 355 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3626/3626), done.

Perhaps it is a temporary error with the server? What Ubuntu version are you using? The libvpx site shows the same repository address.