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By: Name

Name — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:04:45 +0000

I had the same problem ('-lgpac_static' not found).

Go to this site:
http://www.austenconstable.com/tag/centos/

Scroll down to '2. Compile & Install GPAC'.

Before running ./configure give permission:
chmod 777 ./configure

By: rea

rea — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:51:17 +0000

codec:$ ./configure –enable-mp4-output –enable-shared –enable-pthread
codec:$ make && make install

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgpac_static

I took this error what can I do for solve

By: artdi

artdi — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:21:34 +0000

For solving the problem with x264 :

wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6….
tar xvfz git-1.6.1.tar.gz
cd git-1.6.1
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

By: B00MER

B00MER — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:30:16 +0000

This walk through was a life saver. I was using yum to install ffmpeg, however working with an Axis IP Camera that supports H.264 was not in the proper container, and yum was only using –enable x264 and NOT –enable libx264, after using this guide and recompiling all of the dependencies. I finally was able to get the files into a proper container and are now able to play the files generated back in the Flash Player with H.264 support. Thanks!

Btw, I did run into one issue with the libx264 that is listed wasn't a proper version for the other dependencies but simply grabbed a more recent snapshot and all was gravy. thanks again.

By: gregory

gregory — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:51:44 +0000

@john

no, sorry I haven't tried installing MOC. If it works with FFMPEG and you used the build above you might have issues with some of the missing audio codecs. Also, ffplay and ffserver are disabled in the above instructions.

I'm not sure what your specific issue is, but perhaps you just need to declare some flags to enable specific features in the ./configure

By: joe

joe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:57:43 +0000

okay fixed the previous problem. i followedArtem Russakovskii ’s advice in the comments above.

i typed ldconfig in x264 directory after the make.

and it works…..

By: joe

joe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:54:28 +0000

okay everything is good till i get to compiling ffmpeg.

it says i need x264 that has version bigger than 0.65

i just dl’ed the latest snapshot. how could this be ?

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:32:40 +0000

Gregory,

Have you tried to install the player called MOC (Music on console) development version 2.5.0.alpha3???
I am asking you because i try to do that and i have problems with its decoder plugins
(when i compile moc, i.e. i do a ./configure, at the end it says:
—————————————————————-
MOC will be compiled with:
Decoder plugins:
OSS: yes
ALSA: no
JACK: no
DEBUG: yes
RCC: no
Network streams: yes
Resampling: no

—————————————————————-

By: shashank

shashank — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:42:37 +0000

Hi guys

i am ona deadline and the time is ticking

I keep getting this error whenever i try to convert a wmv to flv
Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream #0.1

any help is greatly appreciated

Thank You

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By: JORGE ORTEGA

JORGE ORTEGA — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:52:20 +0000

First it takes me a lot of more problems and till i arrive here:

./configure –enable-gpl –enable-postproc –enable-nonfree –enable-postproc –enable-libfaad –enable-swscale –enable-avfilter –enable-pthreads –enable-libxvid –enable-libx264 –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libdc1394 –enable-liba52 –enable-libfaac –disable-ffserver –disable-ffplay
ERROR: x264 not found
If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from SVN. If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
ffmpeg-user@mplayerhq.hu mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
Include the log file “config.err” produced by configure as this will help
solving the problem.

So i am tired to search the solution over the night, i cant find this so i need to find this but i think there is a lack of information in every site including this.

So i need this to be up for tomorrow and only is this problem and i cant find a solution, is hard to find what exactly match this but i think people should put their websites more explained because like this is very plain.

By: gregory

gregory — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:24:13 +0000

@Artem, thanks for the code snippets. To all others seeking to install ffmpeg, if you are checking it out from the head, which is constantly changing, be sure and get the latest x264 package. I will be posting more on using Git in the future for those who are not familiar with it as a revision control system.

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:52:14 +0000

I just experienced the same problem as Maxim and after installing various versions of libx264-devel from official repositories, including 0.60, I still couldn’t get ffmpeg to compile.

Here’s the solution: ffmpeg is so cutting edge that it needs the very latest x264 sources. You need to get x264 from their git repository or a daily snapshot.

Here’s what I did:
yast -i git # or whatever package manager you use
rm -fr x264
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

Then compile ffmpeg and it should be fine. I compiled yesterday with no problem.

By: gregory

gregory — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:05:13 +0000

@Maxim

Thanks, if you come across a solution please post back. I used SVN revision: SVN-r13141. You may try checking out that revision and see if the error still occurs.

By: Maxim

Maxim — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:50:06 +0000

Thanks for this fine tutorial Gregory. Worked for me except one error with x264. During its “make” I got:
“libavcodec/libx264.c:224: error: ‘X264_ME_TESA’ undeclared”

I then left it out during the compilation of ffmpeg which finished without problems.

Still searching for the solution.

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