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I'm trying to get ffmpeg running on my server so I can use the PHP Video Toolkit successfully. I'm currently setting up my testing platform, which is a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Server.

Obviously, my first attempt was

apt-get install ffmpeg

But this pre-compiled version doesn't have libmp3lame or any AMR encoders/decoders and other codecs compiled in.

So I went down the "compiling from source" route. I grabbed the apt source and tried, got all the build-dep's for it and compiled. After an initial challenge (some constants not defined in the config.h), it still wouldn't build, problems relating to h263 encoding functions...

After much Googling with no solutions I tried compiling from the latest SVN/Git repos. But I just keep hitting errors. I can ./configure with all my options, but obviously certain dependencies need to be available (xvid, x264, libvorbis etc). Frustratingly I can't seem to get them to be recognised when "make-ing" these bleeding-edge revisions.

So my main question is: has anyone got ffmpeg working on Ubuntu? If so, how did you go about it?

I have tried following a number of tutorials. I can't post them all here yet (thanks to link limiting), but don't be surprised if you post a link to a tutorial and I've already given it a go.

I will be needing to replicate/adapt this method on my production server (which is a 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Server) so I can get this working there too!

simonhamp
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The medibuntu repositories have a build of ffmpeg with all the patented codecs. You could use those.

For more information please visit their HowTo page.

Broam
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I think this post from the Ubuntu Forums might be what you're looking for.

I have used this guide for quite some time and I haven't had any trouble getting ffmpeg up and running.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8345112&postcount=636

EasyTarget
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libmp3lame and the other codecs are in separate packages from ffmpeg; if you want to go back to the package install option, here's a partial list of packages you might need. You may need to enable some extra repositories to get them :

aalib            libXpm
                 lirc
faac             lzo
faad2            mencoder
fribidi          mplayer
giflib           mplayer-codecs
lame             mplayer-codecs-extra
libdv            mplayer-fonts
libdvdcss-       mplayerplug
libdvdnav        mplayer-skins
libdvdplay       nas
libdvdread       SDL
libfame          slang
libmad           speex
libmp4v2         x264
libmpcdec        x264-gtk
libXaw           xvidcore

Disclosure - I haven't personally installed ffmpeg on Ubuntu, only Fedora and SuSE.

gareth_bowles
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