HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[trinay123]

I have installed FFMPEG PHP version 9.10 ubuntu. Now working Perfectly like flv converter also.

But, 1. I want know The details how to compress the video? like small size?

2. How to set Aspect Ratio FFMPEG PHP?

3. How to install x264 ? because I got the code and I tried to install. But In FFMPEG there is no compilation in x264 codec? So, what I can do? This is My Major Priority? Please If Anyone knows Help me........................

[n.hinton]

Follow the instructions on the first page of this 'howto'

[sportspool7]

It is really working. Thanks a lot my friendz especialy to mc4man and FakeOutdoorsman.

[raja8912]

Can you Please provide light on How to integrate the installed ffmpeg libraries with existing players like totem or Rhythmbox???

[qyot27]

Can you Please provide light on How to integrate the installed ffmpeg libraries with existing players like totem or Rhythmbox???

That would require re-compiling the gstreamer-ffmpeg plugin(s). You can't do it with the libraries from a regular ffmpeg compile, although those libraries would probably be used in the compile of the plugin.

Not that I think it would matter too much - the decoding libraries don't change all too often, and unless you're using really obscure video or audio formats, the right decoders have been there for a long, long time, and would be included in the gstreamer plugin (even if only by using the restricted-extras package or Medibuntu or so on).

[madhi19]

Followed the Jaunty tutorial to the letter everything went fine except for ffmpeg I got this

make: *** No rule to make target `libavformat/rtp_asf.h', needed by `libavformat/rtpdec.o'. Stop.

Any idea what I did wrong

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Followed the Jaunty tutorial to the letter everything went fine except for ffmpeg I got this

make: *** No rule to make target `libavformat/rtp_asf.h', needed by `libavformat/rtpdec.o'. Stop.

Any idea what I did wrong

You probably did nothing wrong. Since development is so active (so far 5 revisions just today), you will encounter compilation errors occasionally. Fortunately, these are often found and fixed within a day or even a few hours. Try updating your FFmpeg source and compiling again as shown in the Updating Your Installation section of the guide.

I just compiled FFmpeg r22470 without errors.

[madhi19]

You probably did nothing wrong. Since development is so active (so far 5 revisions just today), you will encounter compilation errors occasionally. Fortunately, these are often found and fixed within a day or even a few hours. Try updating your FFmpeg source and compiling again as shown in the Updating Your Installation section of the guide.

I just compiled FFmpeg r22470 without errors.

Fixed it by adding these lines
cd ffmpeg
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/libswscale/

[qyot27]

Fixed it by adding these lines
cd ffmpeg
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/libswscale/

I'm sure that's probably why the guide uses the SVN repository for ffmpeg, and not git. The SVN checkout automatically grabs libswscale into the correct directory too (and it gives you the nice revision numbers that the git ffmpeg doesn't).

[trinay123]

Follow the instructions on the first page of this 'howto'

I have installed PHP FFMPEG. It is working perfectly. But I have tried after libx264 install it is showing error? there is no compliation. What I can do?