[mythtv-users] Video encoding and ffmpeg

[James Oltman]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Justin Bracken <scourched at gmail.com> wrote:

> I went home last night and tried the -ac 2  line and was shot down on
> that. Apparently ffmpeg cannot switch 5.1 to 2.0.
>
> Can some one please point me to a set of up to date instructions on
> how to install ffmpeg. Wondering if I have a bad install. Tried to
> rebuild it last night on 10.04 unbuntu and failed miserably. Even
> though I had downloaded libx264 I was getting an error from make about
> not finding it. It appears all the instructions I found stopped after
> like 9.04. Assume I'm a noob.
>
> I did get the error to repeat last night and as I remebered it was
> generic. It talked about a rate, height or width being wrong when I
> had -vcodec copy -acodec libmp3lame and went away with changing
> libmp3lame to libfaac.
>
> Thanks again for the help.
>

The FFMPEG IRC channel usually posts a link to instructions for building
from source on Ubuntu.
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