ffmpeg unsupported codec. turnign jpgs into a movie

danpaluska · 12-16-2009, 07:17 PM

i've installed ffmpeg on 3 machines.
one mac and 2 fedora machines and the following line always works fine for me.

Code:

ffmpeg -i screen%04d.jpg ~/Videos/test2.avi

but now i am on a new ubuntu machine and i can't get it working.
i have tried the -vcodec option and various other things but always get an error.

like this:

Code:

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Unsupported codec for output stream #0.0

or if i specify -vcodec mpeg4 i get

Code:

Unknown encoder 'mpeg4'

i searched for this on several forums and saw some references to installing some thing convertit and i believe i successfully did that but i'm a linux newb so i'm not relly sure... it wasn't a command line install, it was a graphical package manager thing.

i installed ffmpeg with the sudo apt-get on ubuntu 9.04

where to now?

oh yeah, full text of command and error.

[CODE]
ffmpeg -i screen%04d.jpg ~/Videos/test3.mp4
FFmpeg version 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --extra-version=svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-armvfp --disable-neon --disable-altivec --disable-vis --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3
Input #0, image2, from 'screen%04d.jpg':
Duration: 00:00:02.76, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 1440x900 [PAR 1:1 DAR 8:5], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Output #0, mp4, to '/home/centralsqwall/Videos/test3.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: 0x0000, yuvj420p, 1440x900 [PAR 1:1 DAR 8:5], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Unsupported codec for output stream #0.0
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drgraefy · 12-17-2009, 09:46 AM

In Debian there's a package called "libavcodec52":

servo:~ 0$ apt-cache show libavcodec52
Package: libavcodec52
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 9952
Maintainer: Debian multimedia packages maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: ffmpeg (4:0.5+svn20090706-2)
Version: 4:0.5+svn20090706-2+b1
Depends: libavutil49 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706) | libavutil-extra-49 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706), libavutil49 (<< 4:0.5+svn20090706-99) | libavutil-extra-49 (<< 4:0.5+svn20090706-99), libc6 (>= 2.7), libdirac-encoder0, libfaad2, libgsm1 (>= 1.0.13), libopenjpeg2, libschroedinger-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libtheora0 (>= 0.0.0.alpha7.dfsg), libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec52_0.5+svn20090706-2+b1_i386.deb
Size: 3873212
MD5sum: 232579f88b030a0860fb4ea4ccae3fae
SHA1: ea5bff682f4cd907c864973c456b18813b110d39
SHA256: 0bd76cdf759807bbd382e0f1e3b19f226fc48fc5cdf226f3124cb637c185d414
Description: ffmpeg codec library
This is the codec library from the ffmpeg project. It supports most existing encoding formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV...).
.
This package contains a Debian-specific version of the libavcodec shared object that should only be used by Debian packages.
Tag: role::shared-lib

servo:~ 0$

Do you have that package installed? Maybe there's an Ubuntu equivalent? I just did a search for "codec ffmpeg".

jamie.

danpaluska · 12-17-2009, 11:13 AM

i believe i found the answer. it lies here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...upported+codec

legal stuff, not full libraries of codec in ubuntu.

but this gets you most complete libraries.

Code:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-unstripped-52

but now i get a different error...

Code:

centralsqwall@PowerSpec:~/Pictures/OMPD/test-12-16$ ffmpeg -r 20 -b 5000 -i screen%04d.jpg ~/Videos/AUTOUPLOAD/OMPD-12-16-test.mp4
FFmpeg version 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --extra-version=svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-armvfp --disable-neon --disable-altivec --disable-vis --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil     49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
  libavcodec    52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
  libavformat   52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
  libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
  libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
  built on Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3
Input #0, image2, from 'screen%04d.jpg':
  Duration: 00:00:10.90, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 1440x900 [PAR 1:1 DAR 8:5], 20 tbr, 20 tbn, 20 tbc
Output #0, mp4, to '/home/centralsqwall/Videos/AUTOUPLOAD/OMPD-12-16-test.mp4':
    Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 1440x900 [PAR 1:1 DAR 8:5], q=2-31, 5 kb/s, 90k tbn, 20 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
Segmentation fault
centralsqwall@PowerSpec:~/Pictures/OMPD/test-12-16$

now i will try the full compile here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095

danpaluska · 12-17-2009, 12:08 PM

so i went through that install procedure and now i get this error

Code:

Code:

centralsqwall@PowerSpec:~/Pictures/OMPD/test-12-16$ ffmpeg
bash: /usr/bin/ffmpeg: No such file or directory

i have to link the ffmpeg directory to the /usr/bin directory? or move it?

David the H. · 12-17-2009, 12:52 PM

Local compilations generally install to /usr/local/bin by default. If you want it to install to /usr/bin, you'll need to add a "--prefix=/usr" configuration option.

A better option however would be to add /usr/local/bin to your $PATH, so that commands located there are also automatically located.

Finally, you need to make sure you're entering the correct name for the codecs and formats you use in ffmpeg. "ffmpeg -formats" will list everything that's available to the version you're using.

danpaluska · 01-21-2010, 06:37 PM

i ended up reinstalling the OS as ubuntu 9.10 (was 9.04) and it works fine now.