ffmpeg not finding vcodec libx264

ffmpeg video-encoding libavcodec
Ofeargall picture Ofeargall · Jan 19, 2011 · Viewed 25.3k times · Source

I've installed the latest ffmpeg but it seems unable to locate the video codecs. Do I need to completeley remove ffmpeg and re run the ./configure differently in order for ffmpeg to find the video codecs?

Here's my current configuration:

FFmpeg version git-f61cbc2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers built on Jan 18 2011 10:59:49 with gcc 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465) configuration: --enable-libmp3lame --enable-shared --disable-mmx --arch=x86_64 libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0 libavcore 0.16. 1 / 0.16. 1 libavcodec 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0 libavformat 52.94. 0 / 52.94. 0 libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3 libavfilter 1.74. 0 / 1.74. 0 libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0

Or, can I just re-run the make command to include the library?

Here's my snippet for transcoding:

ffmpeg -i ~/Desktop/watercarts.mov -vcodec libx264 -b 250k -bt 50k -acodec libfaac -ab 56k -ac 2 -s 480x320 ~/Desktop/watercartsipod.mp4

And the error:

Unknown encoder 'libx264'

Thank you in advance.

Answer

ciastek picture ciastek · Mar 16, 2011

In Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) this codec is provided by package libavcodec-extra-53 from multiverse repository.

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