VLC: h264 support encoding and decoding

[erotavlas_turbo]

Hi,

I'm quite newbie of VLC. I use Ubuntu 9.10 with VLC 1.0.2 installed from repository.
I would like to use the following command

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vlc image.jpg --rtsp-caching=12000 --fake-duration 60000 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=H264,vb=800,width=352,height=288}:duplicate{dst=rtp{sdp=rtsp://192.168.0.4:8080/test.sdp}}' vlc://quit

it works well with h263 and h263p but with h264 i get the following error message

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avcodec encoder error: cannot find encoder H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) *** Your FFMPEG installation is crippled. *** *** Please check with your FFMPEG packager. *** *** This is NOT a VLC media player issue. *** [0x970fa90] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot find video encoder (module:any fourcc:H264) [0x970fa90] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot create video chain [0x9974b80] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output (fake)

can you help me?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The VLC pacakge provided by Ubuntu does not support h264 encoding. You need to recompile yourself.

[erotavlas_turbo]

ok, where can i find a guide to install it?

thank

PS

from repository sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc and with libavcodec-extra-52 libavutil-extra-49 libopenjpeg2

I get different message

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[0x893ff20] stream_out_rtp stream out error: cannot add this stream (unsupported codec: H264) [0x86f0910] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot add this stream

Is h264 support?

[erotavlas_turbo]

I have solved

The problem is very strange (I think). The error is in case sensitive H264 h264 codec name.

This is the correct procedure to enable h264 support:
1) install x.264 from source
2) install vlc from source

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vlc image.jpg --rtsp-caching=12000 --fake-duration 60000 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=800,width=352,height=288}:duplicate{dst=rtp{sdp=rtsp://192.168.0.4:8080/test.sdp}}' vlc://quit

[seshkanuri]

Where do I get the X-264 source.
Which version of VLC source is this compatible with?

[erotavlas_turbo]

Hi,

I don't remember the exact version. However it was before 1.0...now probably there are a lot of improvements.

[undercash]

The VLC pacakge provided by Ubuntu does not support h264 encoding. You need to recompile yourself.

is it still true considering the time you posted this? I installed the version for ubuntu 10.0.10 even if I m running 10.0.4lts