HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[dannyboy79]

mc4man,
thanks for trying to help but the lucid ffmpeg (with extra libs) and x264 don't work with sanub's mlt. As I tried to explian mlt needs to be built against a particular ffmpeg installed. I have tried the lucid mlt package which is .5.4 and that doesn't work either as I end up getting conflicts with dependencies of libswscale or something like that.

i have veen tried to build an older version of ffmpeg but I get compiling errors also. There must be locations of files I am not removing or something which is why I really liked the google bash script but I just wish it would do a certain revision of svn.

as a side note I get this error at the end when trying to make ffmpeg r24084, do I just continue and do the checkinstall anyway?

libswscale/rgb2rgb.c: In function ‘palette8tobgr16’:
libswscale/rgb2rgb.c:234: error: implicit declaration of function ‘av_bswap16’
make: *** [libswscale/rgb2rgb.o] Error 1

checkinstall also fails:
========================= Installation results ===========================
INSTALL libavdevice/libavdevice.a
INSTALL libavfilter/libavfilter.a
INSTALL libavformat/libavformat.a
INSTALL libavcodec/libavcodec.a
INSTALL libpostproc/libpostproc.a
CC libswscale/rgb2rgb.o
libswscale/rgb2rgb.c: In function ‘palette8tobgr16’:
libswscale/rgb2rgb.c:234: error: implicit declaration of function ‘av_bswap16’
make: *** [libswscale/rgb2rgb.o] Error 1

**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

[andrew.46]

Hmmmm.... it will be of little help in this situation but in fact mlt 0.5.4 does compile against an up to date system svn FFmpeg and in fact I have just done this. The catch being that I compiled it on Slackware, perhaps there are a few hints in this build script? I will have a shot at kdenlive in the morning and see if it all hangs together, some monster dependencies in there though....

Andrew

[dannyboy79]

Hmmmm.... it will be of little help in this situation but in fact mlt 0.5.4 does compile against an up to date system svn FFmpeg and in fact I have just done this. The catch being that I compiled it on Slackware, perhaps there are a few hints in this build script? I will have a shot at kdenlive in the morning and see if it all hangs together, some monster dependencies in there though....

Andrew

i was trying to build mlt .5.6 not .5.4. I just didn't know what to use for ./configure options. i will check out the link you provided thanks. this is driving me nuts.

[andrew.46]

I note in ./configure --help for mlt 5.4:

NOTE: The recommended version of FFmpeg is SVN-r21322.

There will no doubt be a similar recommendation in ./configure --help for mlt 5.6?

Edit: For mlt 5.6:

andrew@skamandros~/Desktop/mlt-0.5.6$ ./configure --help | grep 'recommended version'
  NOTE: The recommended version of FFmpeg is 0.6.

Andrew

[Linuxforall]

I have sunab's ppa added for KDENLIVE and I use x264 and ffmpeg as well as Mplayer via FO's and Andrew's instructions. I just applied effects via KDENLIVE to few movies and then saved them under various formats using x264 or ffmpeg and all of then worked out fine here.

[dannyboy79]

I have sunab's ppa added for KDENLIVE and I use x264 and ffmpeg as well as Mplayer via FO's and Andrew's instructions. I just applied effects via KDENLIVE to few movies and then saved them under various formats using x264 or ffmpeg and all of then worked out fine here.

weird, his ffmpeg-trunk and sanub2 repos say they are for intrepid and older releases not lucid. I have tried to do it and I got a dependency error with

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdenlive: Depends: libavfilter-extra-0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

what version of melt are you using? if I could see your sources.list that would be cool. I am really stuck and irritated that this isn't working anymore. Could you please let me know what version of ffmpeg you're using all libraries? Everytime I try I get a zero length file if I try to encode to xvid or x264.

[mc4man]

The lucid ffmpeg (with extra libs) and x264 don't work with sanub's mlt.

Interesting because than why would he be publishing lucid packages built off of the lucid ffmpeg source. (without providing an updated ffmeg and libs.

There are 2 sunab ppa's, one just provides a mlt package and uses the lucid kdenlive version
https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archiv...s_filter=lucid

The other (sunab2) provides both a kdenlive and mlt package
https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archiv...s_filter=lucid

You've stated you're using the lucid kdenlive, if that's the case you should be using the stable ppa

kdenlive = 7.7.1 (from ubuntu repos)

If you're using sunab2 then you should be using his kdenlive package, not lucid's.

It's quite likely the kdenlive and mlt packakes from sunab2 will work with newer ffmpeg sources in addition to the default lucid versions

[Linuxforall]

weird, his ffmpeg-trunk and sanub2 repos say they are for intrepid and older releases not lucid. I have tried to do it and I got a dependency error with

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdenlive: Depends: libavfilter-extra-0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

what version of melt are you using? if I could see your sources.list that would be cool. I am really stuck and irritated that this isn't working anymore. Could you please let me know what version of ffmpeg you're using all libraries? Everytime I try I get a zero length file if I try to encode to xvid or x264.

FFmpeg version SVN-r25050, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Sep  6 2010 23:40:30 with gcc 4.4.3
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab
  libavutil     50.25. 0 / 50.25. 0
  libavcore      0. 6. 0 /  0. 6. 0
  libavcodec    52.87. 1 / 52.87. 1
  libavformat   52.78. 3 / 52.78. 3
  libavdevice   52. 2. 1 / 52. 2. 1
  libavfilter    1.38. 1 /  1.38. 1
  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0

kdenlive installed from https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/ppa

[dannyboy79]

FFmpeg version SVN-r25050, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Sep  6 2010 23:40:30 with gcc 4.4.3
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab
  libavutil     50.25. 0 / 50.25. 0
  libavcore      0. 6. 0 /  0. 6. 0
  libavcodec    52.87. 1 / 52.87. 1
  libavformat   52.78. 3 / 52.78. 3
  libavdevice   52. 2. 1 / 52. 2. 1
  libavfilter    1.38. 1 /  1.38. 1
  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0

kdenlive installed from https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/ppa

something is very different between your setup and mine then. I already tried ffmpeg from svn r25042 along with kdenlive from lucid repo an mlt from sanub repo. U say u get kdenlive from sanub repo but that ppa doesn't have kdenlive, only mlt .5.6 for lucid. There's an option to encode to h264 and aac but the file I get is zero an when I run mediainfo on it there is no info. It contains no audio or video streams.

I never checked to make sure my location I'm writing to is full but I would have thought kdenlive wouldve thru an error saying it couldn't write to that location. Will be checking that first thing when I get home from today. On my iPhone currently. Thanks for telling me that works it's just very strange it doesn't for me not to mention dan from kdenlive and sanub both have told me due to ffmpeg API freequent changes it's not smart to run ffmpeg from svn with packages from lucid repo (kdenlive) and a ppa (mlt)

[mc4man]

with packages from lucid repo (kdenlive) and a ppa (mlt)

use the kdenlive from the ppa - sanab2 (linked above