WinFF

[kasio]

Hi,

I am using WinFF on 8.0.4.1, and I am trying to convert an flv file for my Sansa E250, basically a MPEG file.

My problem is that it won't work. I get the terminal output popping up, but it says:

Unknown encoder 'mpeg2video'
Press Enter to Continue

I am using this FFmpeg:

FFmpeg version r11872+debian_3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu1~ppa1h, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-x11grab --prefix=/usr --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-strip --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-altivec --disable-vis --enable-shared --disable-static

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Where did you get this version of FFmpeg from?

[kasio]

It was from TJ's PPA: https://launchpad.net/~intuitivenipple/+archive

[FakeOutdoorsman]

I'm guessing it's a bug with TJ's ffmpeg, probably similar to this Medibuntu bug:
Bug #269997: ffmpeg Unknown encoder 'mpeg2video' (Intredpid x64)

If you run:

ffmpeg -formats | grep mpeg2video

You should see:

E mpeg2video      MPEG2 video
DEVSDT mpeg2video

If there is no E, then encoding has been disabled. The version of ffmpeg from the official Ubuntu repository may work for you.

[kasio]

Received this output:

E mpeg2video MPEG2 video
D VSDT mpeg2video

Can't think whats wrong....

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Sorry about that, I wasn't very clear. The mpeg2video codec does not show "E" which indicates that it can't encode. You can report it as a bug to TJ, or try ffmpeg from the official repo, or compile ffmpeg yourself.

[kasio]

Using the one from the official repo, I get "Unknown codec 'libmp3lame'".

[Yellow Pasque]

Add Medibuntu repos https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu and use their ffmpeg package. In Synaptic, you might have to Force and Lock the version of ffmpeg (under the Package menu)

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Curses! So many ffmpeg versions and their option names can all be different. This time WinFF is using the new name (libmp3lame) for the mp3 encoder, but your version uses the old name (plain old "mp3" I think). If you show me the command WinFF is passing to ffmpeg I can rewrite it to work for the old version.

Or you can skip all of the version issues and their assorted bugs by just compiling ffmpeg yourself. Also, the Ubuntu repo version has not been compiled to support restricted formats, although it can still do some procedures with a few of them. Or you can skip ffmpeg completely and try using mencoder, but I'm not very familiar with it.

[kasio]

I've tried the Medibuntu version, and I still get the unknown codec 'libmp3lame' error.

But this is the FFmpeg config:

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-liba52 --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-shared --prefix=/usr