VLC can't encode to MP3

[c-m]

In linux mint i used to use VLC to record radio streams to mp3.

I have tried the same since switching to Ubuntu 12.04, but I get an error saying MP3 encoding isn't available in my fmpeg package - or something to that affect.

How do I solve this issue?

Thanks

[Enigmapond]

Why are you trying to encode with VLC? If you want a simple GUI for that use soundconverter. What is the source file?

[c-m]

Because I then play it in vlc too so it's delayed. Besides I already have VLC installed and the process worked great in Mint. I just want to replicate that.

No doubt Ubuntu is missing some important encoder, but I don't know which one, hence can't install it.

The source file is bbc radio so .asx steam

[fixitdude]

Might be that you need to turn on the restricted or non-free repositories and install lame or liblame - off the top of my head, maybe do a quick google on those.

I think if you install all the multimedia stuff people recommend here you will be back to normal, you have to do that after every upgrade it seems.

[flemur13013]

This mp3 stuff has been a PITA - until 12.04, where it seemed easier.

You might need these (from synaptic or apt-get):

gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

and maybe:

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0

[shantiq]

sudo apt-get install lame installs mp3



or go to synaptic and add lame



and to check your ffmpeg has the right formats run



ffmpeg -formats see if you have


E mov MOV format
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
E mp2 MPEG audio layer 2
DE mp3 MPEG audio layer 3 [ D for decode E for encode]
E mp4 MP4 format
D mpc Musepack
D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DE mpeg MPEG-1 System format
E mpeg1video raw MPEG-1 video

[c-m]

This mp3 stuff has been a PITA - until 12.04, where it seemed easier.

You might need these (from synaptic or apt-get):

gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

and maybe:

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0

Thanks guys, but I already have all of those anyway.


@shantiq
Lame - says it's just a front end, and doesn't install any other packages.

Yep I also have
DE mp3 MPEG audio layer 3

[shantiq]

ok so if your record a radio station [with red button] you are finding it does not leave an mp3 file in your Music folder right?


what happens ?


do you get anything? an aac? please explain a little more..

[c-m]

This is in VLC, there is no red record button. I'm doing a convert/save.

Here is the exact error message:


Streaming / Transcoding failed:
It seems your FFMPEG (libavcodec) installation lacks the following encoder:
MPEG I/II Layer 3.
If you don't know how to fix this, ask for support from your distribution.

This is not an error inside VLC media player.
Do not contact the VideoLAN project about this issue.

.ogg works fine so I can use that for now.




$ ffmpeg -formats
ffmpeg version 0.8.1-4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers
built on Mar 22 2012 05:09:06 with gcc 4.6.3
This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility. Use avconv instead (see Changelog for the list of incompatible changes).
File formats:
D. = Demuxing supported
.E = Muxing supported
--
E 3g2 3GP2 format
E 3gp 3GP format
D 4xm 4X Technologies format
D IFF IFF format
D ISS Funcom ISS format
D MTV MTV format
DE RoQ raw id RoQ format
E a64 a64 - video for Commodore 64
D aac raw ADTS AAC
DE ac3 raw AC-3
E adts ADTS AAC
DE adx CRI ADX
D aea MD STUDIO audio
DE aiff Audio IFF
DE alaw PCM A-law format
DE alsa ALSA audio output
DE amr 3GPP AMR file format
D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D apc CRYO APC format
D ape Monkey's Audio
D applehttp Apple HTTP Live Streaming format
DE asf ASF format
E asf_stream ASF format
DE *** Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle format
DE au SUN AU format
DE avi AVI format
E avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format
D avs AVS format
D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format
D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D bink Bink
D bmv Discworld II BMV
D c93 Interplay C93
D caf Apple Core Audio Format
DE cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS video
D cdg CD Graphics Format
E crc CRC testing format
DE daud D-Cinema audio format
D dfa Chronomaster DFA
DE dirac raw Dirac
DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format
DE dts raw DTS
DE dv DV video format
D dv1394 DV1394 A/V grab
E dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB)
D dxa DXA
D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
DE f32be PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f32le PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format
DE f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f64le PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format
D fbdev Linux framebuffer
DE ffm FFM (AVserver live feed) format
DE ffmetadata FFmpeg metadata in text format
D film_cpk Sega FILM/CPK format
DE filmstrip Adobe Filmstrip
DE flac raw FLAC
D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation format
DE flv FLV format
E framecrc framecrc testing format
E framemd5 Per-frame MD5 testing format
DE g722 raw G.722
E gif GIF Animation
D gsm raw GSM
DE gxf GXF format
DE h261 raw H.261
DE h263 raw H.263
DE h264 raw H.264 video format
D idcin id Cinematic format
DE image2 image2 sequence
DE image2pipe piped image2 sequence
D ingenient raw Ingenient MJPEG
D ipmovie Interplay MVE format
E ipod iPod H.264 MP4 format
D iv8 A format generated by IndigoVision 8000 video server
DE ivf On2 IVF
D jack JACK Audio Connection Kit
D jv Bitmap Brothers JV
DE latm LOAS/LATM
D libdc1394 dc1394 v.2 A/V grab
D lmlm4 lmlm4 raw format
D lxf VR native stream format (LXF)
DE m4v raw MPEG-4 video format
E matroska Matroska file format
D matroska,webm Matroska/WebM file format
E md5 MD5 testing format
DE mjpeg raw MJPEG video
DE mlp raw MLP
D mm American Laser Games MM format
DE mmf Yamaha SMAF
E mov MOV format
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
E mp2 MPEG audio layer 2
DE mp3 MPEG audio layer 3
E mp4 MP4 format
D mpc Musepack
D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DE mpeg MPEG-1 System format
E mpeg1video raw MPEG-1 video
E mpeg2video raw MPEG-2 video
DE mpegts MPEG-2 transport stream format
D mpegtsraw MPEG-2 raw transport stream format
D mpegvideo raw MPEG video
E mpjpeg MIME multipart JPEG format
D msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream
DE mulaw PCM mu-law format
D mvi Motion Pixels MVI format
DE mxf Material eXchange Format
E mxf_d10 Material eXchange Format, D-10 Mapping
D mxg MxPEG clip file format
D nc NC camera feed format
D nsv Nullsoft Streaming Video
E null raw null video format
DE nut NUT format
D nuv NuppelVideo format
DE ogg Ogg
DE oma Sony OpenMG audio
DE oss Open Sound System playback
D pmp Playstation Portable PMP format
E psp PSP MP4 format
D psxstr Sony Playstation STR format
D pva TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format
D qcp QCP format
D r3d REDCODE R3D format
DE rawvideo raw video format
E rcv VC-1 test bitstream
D rl2 RL2 format
DE rm RealMedia format
D rpl RPL/ARMovie format
DE rso Lego Mindstorms RSO format
DE rtp RTP output format
DE rtsp RTSP output format
DE s16be PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format
DE s16le PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format
DE s24be PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format
DE s24le PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format
DE s32be PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format
DE s32le PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format
DE s8 PCM signed 8 bit format
DE sap SAP output format
D sdp SDP
E segment segment muxer
D shn raw Shorten
D siff Beam Software SIFF
DE smjpeg Loki SDL MJPEG
D smk Smacker video
D sol Sierra SOL format
DE sox SoX native format
DE spdif IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF - IEC958)
DE srt SubRip subtitle format
E svcd MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE swf Flash format
D thp THP
D tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ format
D tmv 8088flex TMV
DE truehd raw TrueHD
D tta True Audio
D tty Tele-typewriter
D txd Renderware TeXture Dictionary
DE u16be PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format
DE u16le PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format
DE u24be PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format
DE u24le PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format
DE u32be PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format
DE u32le PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format
DE u8 PCM unsigned 8 bit format
D vc1 raw VC-1
D vc1test VC-1 test bitstream format
E vcd MPEG-1 System format (VCD)
D video4linux2 Video4Linux2 device grab
D vmd Sierra VMD format
E vob MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE voc Creative Voice file format
D vqf Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
D w64 Sony Wave64 format
DE wav WAV format
D wc3movie Wing Commander III movie format
E webm WebM file format
D wsaud Westwood Studios audio format
D wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA format
D wtv Windows Television (WTV)
D wv WavPack
D x11grab X11grab
D xa Maxis XA File Format
D xmv Microsoft XMV
D xwma Microsoft xWMA
D yop Psygnosis YOP Format
DE yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe format

[shantiq]

i see. so just tested it on my system also pangolin


and it went fine . so see what you have as libavcodec in your synaptic



it looks this way on my system 219407


see if it is different your side if you find you have libavcodec53 change it for libavcodec-extra-53 and this should very likely add functionality you seek

actually before you even do that check and see if you have libmp3lame0 installed 219408


since that is the one contained in libavcodec-extra-53 which allows one to convert from and to mp3 [and it is not present in the libavcodec53 more basic package

see here 219410 you probably will find only adding libmp3lame0 will swing it otherwise go for the full extra package libavcodec-extra-53 Hope this is clear enugh ::::]]]

[HiWayChile]

Thank You!
I had the same problem. This made the trick for me. I had libmp3lame0 installed, but replaced libavcodec53 to libavcodec-extra-53 and got it to work finally.


i see. so just tested it on my system also pangolin


and it went fine . so see what you have as libavcodec in your synaptic



it looks this way on my system 219407


see if it is different your side if you find you have libavcodec53 change it for libavcodec-extra-53 and this should very likely add functionality you seek

actually before you even do that check and see if you have libmp3lame0 installed 219408


since that is the one contained in libavcodec-extra-53 which allows one to convert from and to mp3 [and it is not present in the libavcodec53 more basic package

see here 219410 you probably will find only adding libmp3lame0 will swing it otherwise go for the full extra package libavcodec-extra-53 Hope this is clear enugh ::::]]]

[carra]

Thanks a lot. :p
It did the trick for me too. :guitar:



i see. so just tested it on my system also pangolin


and it went fine . so see what you have as libavcodec in your synaptic



it looks this way on my system 219407


see if it is different your side if you find you have libavcodec53 change it for libavcodec-extra-53 and this should very likely add functionality you seek

actually before you even do that check and see if you have libmp3lame0 installed 219408


since that is the one contained in libavcodec-extra-53 which allows one to convert from and to mp3 [and it is not present in the libavcodec53 more basic package

see here 219410 you probably will find only adding libmp3lame0 will swing it otherwise go for the full extra package libavcodec-extra-53 Hope this is clear enugh ::::]]]

[Davwan]

Thanks... Worked for me too in linux mint maya.

[nmsalgueiro]

This also worked for me in 12.10. Thank you!

[DrDaveHPP]

if you find you have libavcodec53 change it for libavcodec-extra-53 and this should very likely add functionality you seek
Worked for me in Mint 14 x64 too. Many thanks!

[dbruvers]

On my machine libmp3lame0 was already installed. Installing libavcodec-extra-53 fixed it for me on Ubuntu 12.10. Thank you!

[van hanegen]

At least i can convert CD's to MP3 without installing any additional apps (12.10)
Thanks a lot!!!

[Joe Question]

Thank you soooo much! Worked for me too, I had the libmp3lame0 but to make it work had to replace libavcodec53 for libavcodec-extra-53