what's up with ffmpeg?

Completely Clueless · 04-02-2018, 07:55 AM

Hi all,

Just tried to install ffmpeg on Mint and got this:

Code:

breno@breno-laptop ~/Desktop $ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
[sudo] password for breno: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate

I'm only trying to save the audio from video clips and would prefer ffmpeg if it's still available somehow somewhere....

BW-userx · 04-02-2018, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Completely Clueless

Hi all,

Just tried to install ffmpeg on Mint and got this:

I'm only trying to save the audio from video clips and would prefer ffmpeg if it's still available somehow somewhere....

there is always a way. Go old school, compile and install it from source. If you feel you must then look into how to create a deb file then complete the process then install it.

Install Slackware so you'll get a better understanding of how to do that.. install from source.

Quote:

Ubuntu started shipping the libav fork instead of FFmpeg in
recent releases. If you installed the ffmpeg package, then
you actually installed the libav-tools package and a
program that told you to use avconv instead of ffmpeg in
the future, giving the impression that ffmpeg is deprecated,
which it is not.

source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/4325...ories-in-14-04

Completely Clueless · 04-02-2018, 09:59 AM

If I had to compile from source - which has not been the case for a long time now - I'd sooner search around for some other application that could do it instead. After all, stripping the audio from a video clip shouldn't be asking too much!

BW-userx · 04-02-2018, 10:04 AM

extract sound from video
https://askubuntu.com/questions/4174...save-it-as-mp3

Completely Clueless · 04-02-2018, 10:55 AM

Thanks for that which I may return to in due course. I've just thought of another approach: using an old live CD which has ffmpeg already installed on it. I have very many of these discs from 2007-2012; gloriously fully-featured ones, too. Perhaps I should give those a shot first...

jefro · 04-02-2018, 01:00 PM

Wasn't mint using avconv? or something instead of ffmpeg?

Anyway here is a possible way. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=239749

Completely Clueless · 04-03-2018, 12:28 PM

The thing is that ffmpeg was(?)an extremely highly rated program. No one SFAIK was *ever* disappointed with the results they got with it and it had so many different facets it could handle just about anything. It would be tragic if such a fabulous piece of software no longer gets included in new distros just 'cos it's command line only and people expect "better" these days; a terrible decision in my view.
I'm pretty damn sure it will be on some old distros I still keep on live CDs, fortunately; I've saved a couple of dozen of the best from the last 12 years just in case something like this happened.
I used to compile a lot of stuff from source back in the day and enjoyed doing so, but at my age now and time getting shorter and shorter it's a PITA I can do without.

Habitual · 04-03-2018, 01:23 PM

https://www.google.com/search?q=mint+ppa+ffmpeg >
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...u-16-04-14-04/