Avconv, Winff, ffmpeg

[woodsmoke]

In the course of doing a bunch of video stuff, I found the need of converting some file formats.

The cut to the chase is that "winff" "ffmpeg" has/have been "deprecated" and is/are a transition package(s) in the repos and one should use "avconv"( which has been , apparently,) greatly upgraded.

If one cannot actually get Winff to do some of the conversions, the way to fix the situation is to either enable the medibuntu repos or do sudo to do so(sic) one will get an "upgrade" notification, and should accept if one does sudo.

After the upgraded medibuntu repo was enabled "Winff" did, indeed, convert the various formats whereas it would not do so before.

woodsmoke

[Rog131]

Background

FFmpeg

The FFmpeg is: http://www.ffmpeg.org/

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library...

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg

Libav

The Libav is: http://libav.org/

Libav provides cross-platform tools and libraries to convert, manipulate and stream a wide range of multimedia formats and protocols...

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav

Fork from FFmpeg

The Libav project is a fork of the FFmpeg project...The Libav project was announced on March 13, 2011 by a group of FFmpeg developers. The event seems related to an issue in project management..

Ubuntu & Libav

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

...as of Natty, Ubuntu has switched from FFmpeg to the libav fork...

avconf or winff : http://askubuntu.com/questions/329011/avconf-or-winff

Ubuntu mailing-list archives: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/te...ay/000883.html


libav vs ffmpeg

libav vs ffmpeg - better to use libav (avconv) today? : http://superuser.com/questions/50738...v-avconv-today

- The FFmpeg/Libav situation : http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html



Medibuntu

http://www.medibuntu.org/

Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc)...

The Future of the Medibuntu: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...-the-Medibuntu

[woodsmoke]

ROD131
Ummmm what does one say when one sees a "tour de force"....lol

I......along with probably ALL THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY....thank you!

What was it that Sherlock Holmes used to say.... something to the effect that Watson was a conduit for th LIGHT provided by Holmes...

welll I opened the door and you provided a SPOTLIGHT!!!

thank you!

woodsmoke

[Rog132]

ffmpeg & libav - have them both

The libav is the default of the (K)ubuntu. But it is possible to install both the ffmpeg and the libav.

The Debian and it's derivatives have the altenatives system - man update-alternatives:

...
It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For example, many systems have several text editors installed at once. This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a different editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program to make a good choice for an editor to invoke if the user has not specified a particular preference.

Debian's alternatives system aims to solve this problem...

The ffmpeg can be build so that it and it's shared libraries are installed to the /opt /1/. With the Debian alternatives it is easy to use both ffmpeg & libav.


Add libav & ffmpeg to alternatives

The libav (...Ubuntu ffmpeg package ...This package contains the deprecated ffmpeg program. This package also serves as a transitional package to libav-tools...):

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg 20

The ffmpeg:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg ffmpeg /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg 10

check:

:~$ update-alternatives --list ffmpeg
/opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg
/usr/bin/ffmpeg

Changing

Before:

:~$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 0.8.6-6:0.8.6-1ubuntu2, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on Mar 30 2013 22:20:06 with gcc 4.7.2
*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

Change:

:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config ffmpeg
[sudo] password for rog132:
There are 2 choices for the alternative ffmpeg (providing /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg).

Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/ffmpeg 20 auto mode
1 /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg 10 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/ffmpeg 20 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
update-alternatives: using /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg to provide /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg (ffmpeg) in manual mode

After:

:~$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 2.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jul 15 2013 07:09:57 with gcc 4.7 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1)
configuration: --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --libdir=/opt/ffmpeg/lib/ --enable-shared --disable-stripping ...
libavutil 52. 38.100 / 52. 38.100
libavcodec 55. 18.102 / 55. 18.102
libavformat 55. 12.100 / 55. 12.100
libavdevice 55. 3.100 / 55. 3.100
libavfilter 3. 79.101 / 3. 79.101
libswscale 2. 3.100 / 2. 3.100
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

Remove

sudo update-alternatives --remove-all ffmpeg

Gui

:~$ apt-cache show kalternatives

Description: graphical alternatives system configuration tool
Kalternatives offers a GUI to configure the alternative systems (a
system that allows you to select one alternative file for many in the
filesystem).
Kalternatives is available as KDE configuration module, integrated by default
into KDE's System Settings.
.
This is an advanced GUI of the update-alternatives program shipped with dpkg.

Alt + F2 and "kdesudo kcmshell4 kalternatives"




Links

1. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/...tem-structure/

[SteveRiley]

Hey, thanks for the pointer to kalternatives!

[perspectoff]

I tried ffmpeg and WinFF for a short while and then stopped. I liked mencoder's way of doing things (video conversion) better. The results seemed to come out cleaner and faster.

The suggestions I used are here:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Video_Conversion

I'll check out the avconv methods side-by-side...

[woodsmoke]

tip.

[Rog132]

FFmpeg & Trusty

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/ffmpeg

“ffmpeg” binary package in Ubuntu Trusty..."

Removal requested on 2014-01-20.
Deleted on 2014-01-20 by Matthias Klose

lp #1253071, remove ffmpeg, superseded by libav-tools

FFmpeg home: http://www.ffmpeg.org/

Libav home: http://libav.org/

[OneLine]

Back and forth

http://www.ffmpeg.org

October 10, 2014, FFmpeg is in Debian unstable again

We wanted you to know there are FFmpeg packages in Debian unstable again. A big thank-you to Andreas Cadhalpun and all the people that made it possible. It has been anything but simple.

Unfortunately that was already the easy part of this news. The bad news is the packages probably won't migrate to Debian testing to be in the upcoming release codenamed jessie. Read the argumentation over at Debian...

More of the ffmpeg&libav&Ubuntu : Is FFmpeg missing from the official repositories in 14.04?

[OneLine]

Back...




ubuntu/vivid-proposed ffmpeg 7:2.4.3-1 (Accepted): https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/001688.html

ffmpeg (7:2.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Import new upstream bugfix release 2.4.3.
- Refresh Change-symbol-versioning.patch.
- Add new symbols to the libavdevice symbols file.
* Enable libbs2b on arm64, since it is now available.
* Disable frei0r and libx264 on x32, libsoxr and openal on sparc64
and libopencv on m68k, sh4, sparc64 and x32, because they are not
(yet) avialable there.
* Disable assembler optimizations on x32, as they wouldn't work there.
* Include config.log in the build-log, when compiling fails.
* Add fix-hppa-tests.patch to work around a gcc bug on hppa.

:~$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 2.4.3-1 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
built on Nov 5 2014 00:18:23 with gcc 4.9.2 (Ubuntu 4.9.2-1ubuntu1)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg --toolchain=hardened --extra-cflags= --extra-cxxflags= --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --shlibdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libxvid --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzmq --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libsoxr --enable-openal --enable-libopencv
libavutil 54. 7.100 / 54. 7.100
libavcodec 56. 1.100 / 56. 1.100
libavformat 56. 4.101 / 56. 4.101
libavdevice 56. 0.100 / 56. 0.100
libavfilter 5. 1.100 / 5. 1.100
libavresample 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libswscale 3. 0.100 / 3. 0.100
libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100
libpostproc 53. 0.100 / 53. 0.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

ffmpeg Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all

ffmpeg vivid: http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/ffmpeg


From

Webupd8 - FFMPEG RETURNS TO THE OFFICIAL UBUNTU REPOSITORIES WITH UBUNTU 15.04 VIVID VERVET: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/ffmpe...al-ubuntu.html

Ubuntu+1 - Thread: FFmpeg (Slight Return): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2253813

[LinkBot]

ffmpeg transition

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...er/009902.html

wily is moving from libav back to libffmpeg...