MPlayer was compiled without libfaac. Ubuntu 10.04

[Ben Leedham]

Hi,

On previous versions of Ubuntu I have used mencoder to convert avi to mp4 for my iPhone using this command:

mencoder <input-file>.avi -o <output-file>.mov -vf \
dsize=480:352:2,scale=-8:-8,harddup -oac faac -faacopts \
mpeg=4:object=2:raw:br=128 -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 \
-ovc x264 -sws 9 -x264encopts \
nocabac:level_idc=30:bframes=0:bitrate=512:threads=auto:turbo=1:global_header:threads=auto:subq=5:frameref=6:partitions=all:trellis=1:chroma_me:me=umh

In all honesty I don't have too much of an idea what all the options mean, but it always worked, up until upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04.

Now when I try and run it I get this error:

MPlayer was compiled without libfaac. See README or DOCS.

Can anyone suggest what I could do to solve this? From what I can see in the command above it appears that faac is specified as the audio encoder, can I use an alternative or do I have to re-install Mencoder?

Cheers.

[andrew.46]

Hi Ben,

A license problem lead to faac being removed, I believe that Medibuntu has a MEncoder package that allows aac transcoding though for Lucid. Just be aware that the Medibuntu repository seems to be having a few technical problems at the moment...

Andrew

[Ben Leedham]

Thanks very much Andrew, that pointed me in the right direction, much appreciated.

For anyone else having a similar problem, what I did was:

sudo apt-get remove mencoder

to remove mencoder, then added the Medibuntu repository, instructions can be found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Just run the first 2 shell commands specified in that link.

Now reinstall mencoder:

sudo apt-get install mencoder

You should see it contacting the Medibuntu repo for the download. I tried running my command again and it all went smoothly.

[andrew.46]

Hi Ben,

Thanks very much Andrew, that pointed me in the right direction, much appreciated.

No problems . The faac removal issue has been unpopular with Lucid users although I appreciate the licensing issues that face the Ubuntu developers. Looks like the issue has not been resolved in Maverick either...

Andrew

[mc4man]

Looks like the issue has not been resolved in Maverick either...

Doesn't appear so though I think it was momentarily enabled in 10.10 ( blue ver.

From changelog

.................
ffmpeg (4:0.6-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

* merge from debian/experimental. remaining changes:
- don't disable encoders
- don't build against libfaad, libdirac, librtmp and libopenjpeg (all in universe)

-- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:00:54 -0400

ffmpeg (4:0.6-2) experimental; urgency=low

[ Fabian Greffrath ]
* Enable RTMP[E] support via librtmp.
* Disable aac encoder, see README.Debian.
* Fix obsolete-relation-form for the internal dependencies.
* Merge debian/README.Source into debian/README.source and add section
headers.
* Remove obsoleted support for the non-free libamr-nb/wb.

[ Reinhard Tartler ]
* enable runtime-cpudetect
* conditionally build against opencore-amr if installed in the build
environment
* update upstream url in debian/copyright
* fix usage documentation in debian/get-orig-source.sh
* update dep3 headers for debian/patches/900_doxyfile
* add proper replaces for moving presets back to ffmpeg
* make debian/patches gbp-pq friendly
* Add VP80 fourcc to libavformat/riff.c
* Backport-AAC-HE-v2
* bump Standards-Version, no changes needed

-- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:07:56 +0200

ffmpeg-extra (4:0.6-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

* merge from 'main' package. Changes:
- build against faad, dirac, libopenjpeg, x264, mp3lame and xvidcore

-- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:04:08 +0200
......

This bug has good explanations from James Westby and Reinhard Tartler
( there were actually 2 issues, allow aac encoding and allow libfaac itself
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ac/+bug/374900

[sthomas505]

Thanks very much Andrew, that pointed me in the right direction, much appreciated.

For anyone else having a similar problem, what I did was:

sudo apt-get remove mencoder

to remove mencoder, then added the Medibuntu repository, instructions can be found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Just run the first 2 shell commands specified in that link.

Now reinstall mencoder:

sudo apt-get install mencoder

You should see it contacting the Medibuntu repo for the download. I tried running my command again and it all went smoothly.

Many thanks, Ben and Andy for this.

[m4dm1k3]

Thanks very much Andrew, that pointed me in the right direction, much appreciated.

For anyone else having a similar problem, what I did was:

sudo apt-get remove mencoder

to remove mencoder, then added the Medibuntu repository, instructions can be found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Just run the first 2 shell commands specified in that link.

Now reinstall mencoder:

sudo apt-get install mencoder

You should see it contacting the Medibuntu repo for the download. I tried running my command again and it all went smoothly.

Thanks a lot ! It help me .