HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

[conradin]

Indeed a great how to. When i get home i will try this.
Currently i have Jackalope installed and ffmpeg will export to .wav files but not .MP3 files. Anyone have some advice there?
I will try reinstalling ffmpeg soon.

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Indeed a great how to. When i get home i will try this.
Currently i have Jackalope installed and ffmpeg will export to .wav files but not .MP3 files. Anyone have some advice there?
I will try reinstalling ffmpeg soon.

Jackalope uses a relatively new revision of FFmpeg unlike prior Ubuntu versions. Restricted encoders are disabled by default, but it is easy to enable them:

HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted encoding in FFmpeg

[dilog]

excellent instructions and working command row but trying afterwards WinFF with same input says "Could not find FFPlay"
Should I wait until next version of WinFF?

(Ubuntu 9.04 updated)

Dimitris

[FakeOutdoorsman]

excellent instructions and working command row but trying afterwards WinFF with same input says "Could not find FFPlay"
Should I wait until next version of WinFF?

(Ubuntu 9.04 updated)

Dimitris

I'm not too familiar with WinFF. Did you install the libsdl1.2-dev package before compiling FFmpeg? It is under "Optional Dependencies" on this guide.

I am out of town, so my replies may be sparse.

[dilog]

I'm not too familiar with WinFF. Did you install the libsdl1.2-dev package before compiling FFmpeg? It is under "Optional Dependencies" on this guide.

I am out of town, so my replies may be sparse.

I did but all of the same....

[SL666]

Where I can get information for Jaunty?

I'm on jaunty, followed these instructions and it works perfectly.

[dilog]

I did but all of the same....

Sorry, it works perfectly now - many thanks!
Dimitris

[andrew.46]

Hi Fakeoutdoorsman,

It seems that FFmpeg has dropped support for the non-free amr libraries in favour of opencore-amr:

andrew@skamandros~$ svn log svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk -r 19365 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r19365 | diego | 2009-07-07 10:28:16 +1000 (Tue, 07 Jul 2009) | 3 lines

Remove support for nonfree libamr library for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding.
libopencore can now be used as a replacement except for AMR-WB encoding.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

which of course makes your brief guide:

How to play AMR audio files
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...67&postcount=9

correct only for older revisions. I am still scrabbling around myself with the gitorious git repository to re-enable amr support . Looks like the following will be a start:

$ git clone --depth=1 git://opencore-amr.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/opencore-amr 
$ cd opencore-amr
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ make clean

and for the FFmpeg ./configure to succeed:

  --enable-libopencore-amrnb \
  --enable-libopencore-amrwb \
  --enable-version3

Hmmm.... maybe I have given a little more than a start . Mind you I note there is a debian directory with the usual section for creating a debian package which would probably be a better idea.

Andrew

[bgiannes]

i need to do a

cd ffmpeg
cp ffmpeg /usr/bin/

for the build to work


FakeOutdoorsman love your work!!


oh and i needed one or more of these to make x11grab work, (i have a new 9.04 install)

sudo aptitude install libice-dev libsm-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev libxmuu-dev libxpm-dev libxrandr-dev libxt-dev libxtrap-dev libxtst-dev libxv-dev x-dev zlib1g-dev

[alexcckll]

Umm - I'm on Hardy, but now scared for when I may need to upgrade to the next LTS.

I trust that the non-free encoders are available in the version of ffmpeg that I would be able to buy from Canonical?

If that is the case - I'll buy the fully-supported version - if it's just an apt-get away...