I just want to thank you for your excelent post.

After the upgrade to Intrepid I could not use ffmpeg to encode xvid anymore.

I tried to compile it from source on my own – but I failed.

Due to your how – to it works like a charm again.

Thanks,

Michael

Hi Adam, it seems you are missing some libx264 dependencies. Can you try:

apt-get build-dep libx264-59

If that package doesn’t exist, look for the available package by searching for it:

apt-cache search libx264

Also, check if you have medibuntu properly enabled, as suggested by the link at the top of the post. The you should to build everything again, and let me know.

dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libx264.so.65 (used by debian/libavcodec51/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51.50.0).
dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2

Thanks for your feedback, its very enlightening, because in fact, you enabled all codecs, both internal and external. My objective was just those required to encode PSP video, aac xvid and x264, for which I think externalcodecs is sufficient, right ?

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=internalencoders,externalcodecs debian/rules get-orig-source
cd ..
mv ffmpeg_3\:0.svn20080206.orig.tar.gz ffmpeg-debian_0.svn20080206.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source –no-check -x ffmpeg-debian_0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3.dsc
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=internalencoders,externalcodecs dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

should leave you with a working ffmpeg.

–Quentin

In debian/rules, change

SVN_VERSION := $(shell echo $(SRC_VERSION) | sed -ne ‘s/^[0-9]\.[a-z]*//p’)

to

SVN_VERSION := $(shell echo $(SRC_VERSION) | sed -ne ‘s/^[0-9:]*\.[a-z]*//p’)

Then run
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=internalcodecs,externalcodecs debian/rules get-orig-source

Then edit config-extra-includes.h and change all the defines from 0 to 1

Finally, build with

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=externalcodecs dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

(the same as above)

–Quentin