Fully Functional ffmpeg on Ubuntu
For whatever reason, legal or otherwise, Ubuntu comes with a cut down feature restricted version of ffmpeg which cannot, for example, convert videos to iPod or Sony PSP formats. As such, you are required to compile your own version to enable these features.
A few people do not have much luck with compiling software from sources, therefore, I have compiled it for you!
Installing Fully Functional ffmpeg
Please note: This has only been tested on a fresh install of Ubuntu 7.10
Open a terminal
Install prerequisites (Make sure you have multiverse and universe enabled.) You may be asked to insert your installation disk.
sudo apt-get install liblame-dev libxvidcore4-dev libx264-dev libfaac-dev libfaad2-dev liba52-dev libdc1394-dev libgsm1-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev
Get the compiled ffmpeg and install
wget http://www.marcus-furius.com/files/ffmpeg_3:0.svn.20071128-1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i ffmpeg_3:0.svn.20071128-1_i386.deb
You should now have a fully functional ffmpeg on Ubuntu.
Should this note work for you, you can try and build it from source. Here are the instructions.
Converting a Video to iPod or PSP Compatible Formats
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Thank you! You’re a life saver…or erm, at least a time saver.
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thank you so much for this; I tried compiling from source but it did not work out; this works a charm.
I take a lot of videos, and this is a lot easier than converting them using Kino, because I can just let it run on any folder in the background