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Fixing ffmpeg on Ubuntu

For a litany of legal reasons, ffmpeg does not come with all of the necessary things enabled for you to encode video for the iPod Video by default. Therefore, we need to build it from source and install some other libraries and programs, as well. Make sure you have multiverse and universe enabled.

Compiling ffmpeg from version in the repositories

In the terminal, run:

sudo apt-get build-dep ffmpeg

On pre-8.04:

sudo apt-get install liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libdts-dev checkinstall

On 8.04:

sudo apt-get install liblame-dev libfaad-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libdts-dev checkinstall

As there is only a dummy package with libfaad2-dev, it is now replaced with libfaad-dev.

apt-get source ffmpeg

cd ffmpeg-*/

In pre-7.10 releases (these should be all on one line):

{{{./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-dc1394 --enable-libgsm --disable-debug --enable-mp3lame --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-xvid --enable-shared }}}

Or, on 7.10:

{{{./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-libvorbis --enable-libogg --enable-liba52 --enable-libdts --enable-dc1394 --enable-libgsm --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-xvid --enable-shared }}}

On 8.04: {{{./configure --enable-liba52 --disable-debug --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-gpl --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-x264 --enable-xvid --enable-libdts --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr }}}

On later versions of 8.04: {{{./configure --enable-liba52 --disable-debug --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-gpl --enable-x264 --enable-xvid --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-swscaler --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr }}}

make

sudo checkinstall -D make install

*Only!!! If the above command doesn't work try this (reasons are explained below):

sudo make install

*If you get these errors in 8.04:

install:`cannot stat 'doc/ffmpeg.1' No such file or directory
.. ffplay.1 ..
.. ffserver.1..
make: *** Error 1
**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation
Cleaning up...OK
Bye.

Then you should run this command:

sudo apt-get install libx264-dev checkinstall

And then repeat the steps above preceeding the error message.

It will go through a bunch of stuff and prompt you on the last command for a few things. First, hit y to create docs, then just hit enter at the EOF question. Next, it will take you to the name and version. Edit #2 (name) to be ffmpeg, then edit #3 (version) to be something newer than what it is...so, either 1.cvsxxxxxx or some other way. If your installation fails because it claims that it was downgrading ffmpeg, you may use "sudo make install" instead of "sudo checkinstall -D make install", but you will not have a dpkg for it. If you go thise route, you can always uninstall by returning to this directory and typing "sudo make uninstall". If you don't mind not having a dpkg for it, then I'd recommend going straight to a sudo make install. Now, ffmpeg is fixed, time to move onto gtkpod's abilities.

Compiling ffmpeg from upstream svn snapshots

• Compiling from upstream may currently be broken if you choose to compile in support for "H264" (--enable-x264 option) due to ffmpeg requiring a more up to date version of libx264. See this http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/56828. The error message you might see includes "'X264_ME_TESA' undeclared (first use in this function)"

Remove ffmpeg

{{{sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg }}}

Get pre-requisites

{{{sudo apt-get install liba52-dev libdts-dev libgsm1-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore4 libxvidcore-dev libdc1394-dev libfaac-dev liblame-dev libx264-dev libfaad2-dev libtheora-dev libsdl1.2-dev }}}

Grab the ffmpeg source

{{{wget http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 tar jxvf ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 cd ffmpeg-export-*}}}

or checkout the latest version from svn {{{svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg cd ffmpeg }}}

Configure

{{{./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-debug --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-liba52 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid }}}

Compile