The FFmpeg packages in Ubuntu and Debian 5 "Lenny" don´t support transcoding to all HTML5 formats.
This tutorial describes how to compile FFmpeg.
This HowTo has been tested with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 13.04.
In this tutorial we assume that you´re in /usr/src (cd /usr/src) and the Multimedia Repository is added as source.
If you installed FFmpeg and x264 before, remove them first:
apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 apt-get autoremove
1. We start with installing some packages:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install make automake g++ bzip2 python unzip patch subversion ruby build-essential git-core checkinstall yasm texi2html libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore-dev zlib1g-dev
2. We install yasm
wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz tar xvzf yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz cd yasm-1.2.0 ./configure make && make install cd ..
3. We install x264:
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git cd x264 ./configure --enable-shared make && make install cd ..
4. We install libvpx
wget http://webm.googlecode.com/files/libvpx-v1.1.0.tar.bz2 tar xvjf libvpx-v1.1.0.tar.bz2 cd libvpx-v1.1.0 ./configure make make install cd ..
5. We check the paths for ldconfig
Open /etc/ld.so.conf and check, if the paths /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib exist in the file. If not, add them.
Then execute ldconfig:
# ldconfig
6. We install FFmpeg
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.10.tar.bz2 tar xvjf ffmpeg-0.8.10.tar.bz2 cd ffmpeg-0.8.10 ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc \ --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb \ --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \ --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid make make install cd ..
7. IMPORTANT: execute ldconfig
ldconfig
FFmpeg is now installed at /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg. Insert this path for FFmpeg in VIMP´s backend at administration -> configuration -> transcoder.
8. Last but not least, copy the presets to /usr/local/share/ffmpeg and eventually you have to install qt-faststart as well: Presets und faststart
