ffmpeg encoder error

[vlcfiend]

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[00000407] ffmpeg encoder error: cannot find encoder MPEG AAC Audio [00000301] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot find encoder ((null)) [00000301] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot create audio chain [00000374] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output (mp3 )

How I can get MPEG ACC Audio encoder on Ubuntu Edgy??
I installed ffmpeg, gstreamer-ffmpeg and a lot of encoder but the answer always is the same .

Thx

[xtophe]

You need a FFMpeg compiled with FAAC

[UbuntuRasigan]

Okay, this is a hack, but I got it working (for Dapper Update 1 - Edgy couldn't be to dissimilar)

VLC on ubuntu repositories (0.8.4, or the dapper nightlies 0.8.5) appears to be not compiled with AAC encoder support. I didn't have too much luck trying to compile it myself (kept breaking some library or the other). I looked around and came across the vlc version for slackware - all ready and good to go

So I looked for info on installing .tgz packages in ubuntu and came across "alien" and got it to install the package. The slackware version gets installed in /opt/vlc directory. vlc then needs a few library linking to get it working.

Here are the detailed steps that to get you going with transcoding to H264/MP4A and MP4V/MP4A - please, first understand what is going on, and improvise as necessary. DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

download vlc-0.8.5-i686-3.tgz to your home directory.

sudo apt-get install alien

sudo alien -i vlc-0.8.5-i686-3.tgz

examine /opt/vlc directory to understand what has been installed.

add the line "/opt/vlc/lib" (without quotes) to /etc/ld.so.conf

sudo ldconfig

sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2 libid3tag0 libslang1 libmad0

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.7 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.4

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

sudo ln -s /opt/vlc/bin/vlc /usr/bin/vlcslack

Use the following command to identify any broken or missing libraries.

vlcslack -v --reset-config --reset-plugins-cache -l

Hope this helps. Leave a note if it did. Good luck.

[mtice]

UbuntuRasigan,

Thanks for the info. It worked great.