Carsten, I didn't find compiling ffmpeg difficult, and I'm not a linux guru,
just a simple user that is happier when not needing to use the console :p
The only thing I compile is Blender. I think I didn't have to install any extra
dependency for for compiling ffmpeg.
All you have to do is:
./configure --prefix="/opt/ffmpeg"
make and make install (with su)
That will install the new ffmpeg in /opt/ffmpeg instead of replacing your
system's ffmpeg libraries. Then you just point the Blender configuration of
ffmpeg to that directory and it should work.
Now that I remember, with that configuration, blender gave some ffmpeg-jack
linking error at the end, so I finally compilled ffmpeg with this:
./configure --prefix="/opt/ffmpeg" --disable-devices
Then it all worked.
About the extra codecs, if you type ./configure --help, all the extra
parameters for compiling ffmpeg will be listed.
For compiling with x264, you have to install the latest version of libx264. It
compiles easily just with :
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/opt/x264
make
make install
Then I compiled ffmpeg with:
./configure --extra-cflags=-I/opt/x264/include --extra-ldflags=-L/opt/x264/lib
--enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc
--enable-libfaac --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264
--enable-x11grab --enable-libxvid --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopenjpeg
--enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-libdirac --enable-frei0r
--prefix="/opt/ffmpegfull"
Well, I as you can see I compiled with a different directory so that it didn't
overwrite the blender ffmpeg version I did.
Troy must be right about the libraries linking thing, cause with all these
enabled, blender couldn't find the libraries. But well, I don't know how to
solve it, so I just compiled the version for blender without this extra stuff.
About the x264 version, when you run the x264 enabled ffmpeg, it still won't be
able to find your /opt/x264 library. So, you can temporarily type this in the
console from where you are going to use your custom ffmpeg:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib
Or, you can just make a file called ffmpeg.conf with this line inside;
/opt/x264/lib
Then save it in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and execute ldconfig as root. That way the
changes to the library path will be permanent.
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