HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[piratec]

Yay! This is still up and running good I have a nice Ubuntu 64 installed on my new c2d machine and I will need to compile ffmpeg on it. Good work and thx!

[HolyRoses]

anyone notice that like -artist and -title options are now gone from SVN? Anyone know if that is a bug or if it is supposed to be coming back?

-HR

[FakeOutdoorsman]

anyone notice that like -artist and -title options are now gone from SVN? Anyone know if that is a bug or if it is supposed to be coming back?

-HR

Looks like there is a new metadata API and the old one has been depreciated:

$ ffmpeg -h | grep metadata
-metadata string=string  add metadata

[HolyRoses]

hmmmm, fun.

Got a list of accepted metadata? Wonder if you can do iPod tagging with it now.

[FakeOutdoorsman]

hmmmm, fun.

Got a list of accepted metadata? Wonder if you can do iPod tagging with it now.

I'm not sure what is accepted with the new API. I never used the old metadata API. I use AtomicParsley to add iTunes style tags for iPod.

[smiley_27]

hi @ all ...

thank' s a lot for thise fine how-to.
but i' ve a problem. i wanna install the Xine-Lib 1.2 CVS with VDPAU Patch, but i get a error in "make" ...

../../contrib/libxdg-basedir/.libs/libxdg-basedir.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -ldl -lz -lm -lrt -lresolv -lnsl -L/usr/local/lib -lavutil  -Wl,--gc-sections -pthread   -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libxine.so.2 -o .libs/libxine.so.2.0.0
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libavutil.a(base64.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libavutil.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libxine.la] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/smiley/ffmpeg/xine-lib-1.2/src/xine-engine'
make[1]: *** [../src/xine-engine/libxine.la] Fehler 2
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/smiley/ffmpeg/xine-lib-1.2/misc'
make: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
smiley@pc-1:~/ffmpeg/xine-lib-1.2$

"Fehler" means ERROR

anyone some ideas, what i can do?

further ... before i begun to install xine-lib-1.2 i' ve installed succesfully ffmpeg.

hope somebody can help me. .... thank' s ... smiley

[FakeOutdoorsman]

hi @ all ...

thank' s a lot for thise fine how-to.
but i' ve a problem. i wanna install the Xine-Lib 1.2 CVS with VDPAU Patch, but i get a error in "make" ...

../../contrib/libxdg-basedir/.libs/libxdg-basedir.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -ldl -lz -lm -lrt -lresolv -lnsl -L/usr/local/lib -lavutil  -Wl,--gc-sections -pthread   -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libxine.so.2 -o .libs/libxine.so.2.0.0
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libavutil.a(base64.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libavutil.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libxine.la] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/smiley/ffmpeg/xine-lib-1.2/src/xine-engine'
make[1]: *** [../src/xine-engine/libxine.la] Fehler 2
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/smiley/ffmpeg/xine-lib-1.2/misc'
make: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
smiley@pc-1:~/ffmpeg/xine-lib-1.2$

"Fehler" means ERROR

anyone some ideas, what i can do?

further ... before i begun to install xine-lib-1.2 i' ve installed succesfully ffmpeg.

hope somebody can help me. .... thank' s ... smiley

I wish I could help you, but I know nothing of Xine or VDPAU. Hopefully someone with some experience in these areas will be able to help.

[andrew.46]

Hi,

I have a small suggest that may have a place in your guide. I recently installed Hardy Heron again, using VirtualBox, and installed the svn MPlayer / x264 + yasm. I used checkinstall for yasm and in a step that may not be totally necessary I used:

--pkgversion "0.7.2"

which was designed to defeat the repository version of 0.5.xxxxx in Hardy. I did not test if an unlabelled yasm 0.7.2 would necessarily be overwritten by the older repository version though.

Good to see that moth-eaten heron on my desktop again though .

Andrew

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Hi,

I have a small suggest that may have a place in your guide. I recently installed Hardy Heron again, using VirtualBox, and installed the svn MPlayer / x264 + yasm. I used checkinstall for yasm and in a step that may not be totally necessary I used:

--pkgversion "0.7.2"

which was designed to defeat the repository version of 0.5.xxxxx in Hardy. I did not test if an unlabelled yasm 0.7.2 would necessarily be overwritten by the older repository version though.

Good to see that moth-eaten heron on my desktop again though .

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I don't remember the compiled yasm being replaced by repository yasm in my tests, but it's been a while now. I added "pkgversion" anyway because it's nice to see what version it is in the package manager.

I'm working on the Jaunty FFmpeg guide now. It seems as if "--fstrans=no" and "--install=yes" are no longer required in checkinstall for Jaunty. So far that seems to be the only difference between the two Ubuntu releases. I'll probably just leave these options to have one guide for both, but what do you think?

[FakeOutdoorsman]

This guide has moved to the official FFmpeg wiki:

How to Compile FFmpeg and x264 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04