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Posted: **18 Sep 2007 03:27**

Hello all, yet another question...

Debain 2.6.21-2-amd64

Trying to get h264 working.

VLC media player 0.8.6d Janus
[00000294] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[00000306] main private: creating httpd
[00000317] ffmpeg encoder error: cannot find encoder h264
[00000298] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot find encoder ((null))
[00000298] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot create video chain
[00000314] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output (mpgv)

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# vlc --list|grep ffmpeg
VLC media player 0.8.6d Janus
starting VLC root wrapper... using UID 0 (root)
***************************************
* Running VLC as root is discouraged. *
***************************************

 It is potentially dangerous, and might not even work properly.
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg audio/video decoder/encoder ((MS)MPEG4,SVQ1,H263,WMV,WMA)
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg chroma conversion
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg audio/video encoder
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg demuxer
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg muxer
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg video filter
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg crop padd filter
  ffmpeg                FFmpeg deinterlace video filter

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# dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg
ii  ffmpeg                               0.cvs20070307-6                  multimedia player, server and encoder
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg                 0.10.2-3                         FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii  libavcodec1d                         0.cvs20070307-6                  ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat1d                        0.cvs20070307-6                  ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil1d                          0.cvs20070307-6                  ffmpeg utility library
ii  libpostproc1d                        0.cvs20070307-6                  ffmpeg video postprocessing library
ii  libswscale1d                         0.cvs20070307-6                  ffmpeg video scaling library

x264: ( x264-snapshot-20070917-2245 )

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# ./configure --enable-shared
./version.sh: line 2: svnversion: command not found
Platform:   X86_64
System:     LINUX
avis input: no
mp4 output: no
pthread:    yes
gtk:        no
debug:      no
gprof:      no
PIC:        yes
shared:     yes
visualize:  no

I'm not sure how to get this working correctly?
Any help is appreciated.

Posted: **18 Sep 2007 11:37**

Update -

x264:

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# dpkg -l | grep x264
ii  libx264-54                           0.svn20070309-5~sid.863    x264 video coding library
ii  libx264-dev                          0.svn20070309-5~sid.863    development files for libx264
ii  x264                                 0.svn20070309-5~sid.863    video encoder for the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC stand

ffmpeg:

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# ./configure --enable-x11grab --enable-liba52 --enable-liba52bin  --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-shared --disable-static
install prefix            /usr/local
source path               /home/encoder/downloads/ffmpeg-checkout-2007-09-18
C compiler                gcc
make                      make
.align is power-of-two    no
ARCH                      x86_64 (generic)
big-endian                no
MMX enabled               yes
CMOV enabled              no
CMOV is fast              no
EBX available             yes
EBP available             yes
gprof enabled             no
debug symbols             yes
strip symbols             yes
optimize                  yes
static                    no
shared                    yes
postprocessing support    yes
software scaler enabled   no
video hooking             yes
Imlib2 support            yes
FreeType support          yes
network support           yes
IPv6 support              yes
threading support         no
SDL support               yes
Sun medialib support      no
AVISynth enabled          no
liba52 support            yes
liba52 dlopened           yes
libamr-nb support         no
libamr-wb support         no
libdc1394 support         no
libfaac enabled           no
libfaad enabled           no
libfaad dlopened          no
libgsm enabled            no
libmp3lame enabled        no
libnut enabled            no
libogg enabled            no
libtheora enabled         no
libvorbis enabled         no
x264 enabled              yes
XviD enabled              no
zlib enabled              yes
License: GPL
Creating config.mak and config.h...

Still getting the same error, but I think I am getting closer.
I will try again in the morning.

Should I be using cvs or svn?
I do not know the difference.

Posted: **18 Sep 2007 14:20**

Debian has decided that H264 encoder might be a problem according to Software patents and therefore have removed it from their repository...

Posted: **18 Sep 2007 16:43**

So what would be a good Linux distro for h264 and 64 bit?

Thank you for the reply.

Posted: **18 Sep 2007 16:59**

Debian ? and build your own VLC?

Posted: **18 Sep 2007 20:02**

Depending on your needs, there are several packages maintained directly by the VLC project...

of course I would now make publicity for openSUSE

Why: because it's different

Posted: **19 Sep 2007 08:56**

I was currious about openSuSE, is free or do I have to buy it? (looks like there are a lot of packages for it)

Though I am not giving up just yet.

ffmpeg-checkout-2007-09-18

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# ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-liba52 --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid  --enable-shared --disable-debug
install prefix            /usr/local
source path               /home/encoder/downloads/ffmpeg-checkout-2007-09-18
C compiler                gcc
make                      make
.align is power-of-two    no
ARCH                      x86_64 (generic)
big-endian                no
MMX enabled               yes
CMOV enabled              no
CMOV is fast              no
EBX available             yes
EBP available             yes
gprof enabled             no
debug symbols             no
strip symbols             yes
optimize                  yes
static                    yes
shared                    yes
postprocessing support    yes
software scaler enabled   no
video hooking             yes
Imlib2 support            yes
FreeType support          yes
network support           yes
IPv6 support              yes
threading support         pthreads
SDL support               yes
Sun medialib support      no
AVISynth enabled          no
liba52 support            yes
liba52 dlopened           no
libamr-nb support         no
libamr-wb support         no
libdc1394 support         no
libfaac enabled           no
libfaad enabled           no
libfaad dlopened          no
libgsm enabled            yes
libmp3lame enabled        yes
libnut enabled            no
libogg enabled            yes
libtheora enabled         yes
libvorbis enabled         yes
x264 enabled              yes
XviD enabled              yes
zlib enabled              yes
License: GPL
Creating config.mak and config.h...

Looks like it should be there, yes?

Do I need to reinstall vlc each time a make an ffmpeg change or change in general?

Thanks for all the replies!

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