Quote:
Originally Posted by depam
But I need to download the ffmpeg from source everytime I upgrade my OS since Xvid is not supported.
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Have you tried the medibuntu repository?
Code:
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free
It has many multimedia packages including ffmpeg with compilation options which were disabled in Ubuntu due to legal reasons or open source policy re-enabled. See some differences between original Ubuntu and Medibuntu options:
Original Ubuntu
Code:
tom@tobr0222:~$ ffmpeg -formats | grep 264
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler
--enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg
--enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared
--prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
built on Jun 3 2007 20:59:25, gcc: 4.1.3 20070528 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-9ubuntu2)
DE h264 raw H264 video format
D V DT h264
Medibuntu
Code:
tom@tobr0222:~$ ssh notebook-2 ffmpeg -formats | grep 264
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler
--enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg
--enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame
--enable-libfaadbin --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-xvid
--enable-x264 --enable-liba52 --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb
--enable-shared --prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
built on Dec 20 2007 21:25:50, gcc: 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
DE h264 raw H264 video format
DEV DT h264