Best way to get ffmpeg

[Shaika-Dzari]

Hello,

What would you consider the best way to install ffmpeg and remove libav ?

There is a ppa managed by Jon Severinsson or I could build it manually (but will need to rebuild other stuff as well)...


Thanks

[claydoh]

probably the PPA is the easiest way. It has been around for a while now, with regular updates so it is likely safe to use.

[woodsmoke]

medibuntu

[claydoh]

medibuntu

lol, eye don' theenk soh, meester smoke

[GreyGeek]

medibuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Medibuntu has now been shut down, the packages were either obsolete, unnecessary or moved to the official Ubuntu archive.
A Libdvdcss package is now available direct from VideoLan http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html

A couple weeks ago I looked into installing ffmpeg so that I could convert a couple of videos using avconv. After activating the PPA it wanted to replace 600+ files (effectively downgrading my Trusty to, IIRC, 12.04. I declined to take that ride.

Failing that here is what I tried to do:

/usr/bin/avconv -y -i "/home/jerry/Videos/100VIDEO/VID00026.AVI" -crf 20.0 -vcodec libx264 -filter:v scale=1280:720 -preset slow -acodec libvo_aacenc0 -ar 48000 -b:a 128k -coder 1 -flags +loop -cmp chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -subq 6 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 1 -threads 0 "/home/jerry/VID00026.mp4"

The "libvo" caused the conflict.

I ended up using VLC.

[Shaika-Dzari]

Using jon severinsson ppa (https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ffmpeg) without any problem.

$:>ffmpeg -h                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
ffmpeg version 1.2.6-7:1.2.6-1~trusty1 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Apr 26 2014 18:52:58 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
  configuration: --arch=amd64 --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-pthreads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-version='7:1.2.6-1~trusty1' --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --enable-bzlib --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libopencv --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-zlib --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-libcdio --enable-x11grab --enable-libx264 --shlibdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
  libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
  libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
  libavdevice    53.  5.103 / 53.  5.103
  libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
  libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

[woodsmoke]

yes as noted below medibuntu has "been shut down" but the noted methods work I am running Tahr and have no problems
woodsmoke