ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

[Leslie Rhorer]

        I require an h.264 and mpeg2video codecs in ffmpeg, but "Lenny" does
not provide them.  I read through a number of articles giving advice on
how to compile these codecs into ffmpeg, but when I try to take their
advice, the install fails.  All of them I have come across instruct the
user to employ svn to enable the required utilities.  The problme is,
the svn download fails.  Every suggestion I have seen, including one
from late September of this year, calls for a download from
svn.mplayerhq.hu.  I can ping the site, but when the call to svn tries
to download, if fails with "svn: Can't connect to
host 'svn.mplayerhq.hu': Connection timed out".  So what can I do, now?

        Here is an example of the command I used to try to install a version of
ffmpeg with an h.264 codes and an mpeg2video codec compiled in:

# apt-get build-dep ffmpeg-debian
# apt-get source ffmpeg-debian
# cd ffmpeg-debian-0.svn20080206
# DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=internalencoders fakeroot debian/rules
get-orig-source
# sed -i '1s/ffmpeg-debian/ffmpeg/' debian/changelog debian/control
# DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=internalencoders dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

        When I try to run  the 4th line, the process fails apparently when
trying to download ffmpeg_0.svn20080206.orig.tar.gz.


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[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.-3]

In <DrKdnVYWxINtjHTXnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@...>, lrhorer wrote:
>        I require an h.264 and mpeg2video codecs in ffmpeg, but "Lenny" does
>not provide them.  I read through a number of articles giving advice on
>how to compile these codecs into ffmpeg, but when I try to take their
>advice, the install fails.

Have you tried getting packages from <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>?
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[Leslie Rhorer]

> Have you tried getting packages from
> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>?

On your advice, I just tried there.  There are a ton of unmet
dependencies, many of which I can't find at all.  For example, the
ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a
dozen others) which is not loaded.  When I try to load libavcodec52, it
depends on libdirac-encoder0, which does not seem to be on the site,
and indeed which I cannot find on any of the Debian distro sites I
know.  It's not the only one, by a long shot.


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[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI-4]

lrhorer wrote:

>> Have you tried getting packages from
>> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>?
>>    
>
> On your advice, I just tried there.  There are a ton of unmet
> dependencies, many of which I can't find at all.  For example, the
> ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a
> dozen others) which is not loaded.  When I try to load libavcodec52, it
> depends on libdirac-encoder0, which does not seem to be on the site,
> and indeed which I cannot find on any of the Debian distro sites I
> know.  It's not the only one, by a long shot.
>  

Are you trying to manually install the .deb? You can do that, but it'll
be complicated: you'll need to download all dependencies from that site,
and the dependencies of those dependencies, and so on.

Let apt do the work for you. Add the repository (address and
instructions are on that page) and then just use aptitude install ffmpeg.



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[S. Fishpaste]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:22:14 -0500, lrhorer in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:

>
>> Have you tried getting packages from
>> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>?
>
> On your advice, I just tried there.  There are a ton of unmet
> dependencies, many of which I can't find at all.  For example, the
> ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a
> dozen others) which is not loaded.  When I try to load libavcodec52, it
> depends on libdirac-encoder0, which does not seem to be on the site,
> and indeed which I cannot find on any of the Debian distro sites I
> know.  It's not the only one, by a long shot.

Add Debian Multimedia to your sources list, rather than trying to install
each *.deb manually.


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[Leslie Rhorer]

OK, thanks.  I tried verious versins, and after a long climb up the
dependency tree, I was finally able to get it installed from stable.


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[Leslie Rhorer]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> lrhorer wrote:
>>> Have you tried getting packages from
>>> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>?
>>>    
>>
>> On your advice, I just tried there.  There are a ton of unmet
>> dependencies, many of which I can't find at all.  For example, the
>> ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a
>> dozen others) which is not loaded.  When I try to load libavcodec52,
>> it depends on libdirac-encoder0, which does not seem to be on the
>> site, and indeed which I cannot find on any of the Debian distro
>> sites I
>> know.  It's not the only one, by a long shot.
>>  
>
> Are you trying to manually install the .deb? You can do that, but
> it'll be complicated: you'll need to download all dependencies from
> that site, and the dependencies of those dependencies, and so on.
>
> Let apt do the work for you. Add the repository (address and
> instructions are on that page) and then just use aptitude install
> ffmpeg.

I tried that, but I could not get it to work.  I think I was setting up
my sources list incorrectly.  I must have been inputting something
wrong, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what.


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[Chris Davies-2]

lrhorer <lrhorer@...> wrote:
> I tried that, but I could not get it to work.  I think I was setting up
> my sources list incorrectly.  I must have been inputting something
> wrong, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what.

Tell us what you did, what you expected to happen, and what actually
happened, and we'll try to help!

Chris


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[Alexey Salmin]

May be you forget to do "apt-get update"?

Send here your sources.list and we'll tell you if there's something
wrong with it.

Alexey

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:37 AM, lrhorer <lrhorer@...> wrote:

> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>
>> lrhorer wrote:
>>>> Have you tried getting packages from
>>>> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>?
>>>>
>>>
>>> On your advice, I just tried there.  There are a ton of unmet
>>> dependencies, many of which I can't find at all.  For example, the
>>> ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a
>>> dozen others) which is not loaded.  When I try to load libavcodec52,
>>> it depends on libdirac-encoder0, which does not seem to be on the
>>> site, and indeed which I cannot find on any of the Debian distro
>>> sites I
>>> know.  It's not the only one, by a long shot.
>>>
>>
>> Are you trying to manually install the .deb? You can do that, but
>> it'll be complicated: you'll need to download all dependencies from
>> that site, and the dependencies of those dependencies, and so on.
>>
>> Let apt do the work for you. Add the repository (address and
>> instructions are on that page) and then just use aptitude install
>> ffmpeg.
>
> I tried that, but I could not get it to work.  I think I was setting up
> my sources list incorrectly.  I must have been inputting something
> wrong, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what.
>
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[Mihamina Rakotomandimby-6]

10/30/2009 01:32 AM, lrhorer::
> OK, thanks.  I tried verious versins, and after a long climb up the
> dependency tree, I was finally able to get it installed from stable.

How?

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[Chris Davies-2]

lrhorer <lrhorer@...> wrote:
> OK, thanks.  I tried verious versins, and after a long climb up the
> dependency tree, I was finally able to get it installed from stable.

If you use the right tools they will sort out the dependencies for
you. That's what the apt* family is for.

Chris


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