Author: andy
Date: 2011-11-24 18:26:46 -0700 (Thu, 24 Nov 2011)
New Revision: 9011
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
Log:
Updated ffmpeg to 0.8.6
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2011-11-24 22:03:27 UTC (rev 9010)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2011-11-25 01:26:46 UTC (rev 9011)
@@ -863,7 +863,7 @@
<!ENTITY amarok-version "1.4.8">
<!-- Chapter 40 -->
-<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version "0.6.1">
+<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version "0.8.6">
<!ENTITY avifile-version "0.7.45">
<!ENTITY mplayer-version "1.0rc1">
<!ENTITY xine-ui-version "0.99.5">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2011-11-24 22:03:27 UTC
(rev 9010)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2011-11-25 01:26:46 UTC
(rev 9011)
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>November 25th, 2011</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[abenton] - Updated ffmpeg to 0.8.6.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>November 24th, 2011</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml 2011-11-24 22:03:27 UTC (rev
9010)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml 2011-11-25 01:26:46 UTC (rev
9011)
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
<!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-http
"http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;.tar.bz2";>
<!ENTITY ffmpeg-download-ftp " ">
- <!ENTITY ffmpeg-md5sum "4f5d732d25eedfb072251b5314ba2093">
- <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size "3.5 MB">
- <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize "328 MB (built with recommended dependencies)">
- <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time "2.1 SBU">
+ <!ENTITY ffmpeg-md5sum "b4ef1fa6506750569fdb64a0f0a646a8">
+ <!ENTITY ffmpeg-size "4.3 MB">
+ <!ENTITY ffmpeg-buildsize "178 MB (built with recommended dependency)">
+ <!ENTITY ffmpeg-time "2.5 SBU">
]>
<sect1 id="ffmpeg" xreflabel="FFmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;">
@@ -30,20 +30,21 @@
<title>Introduction to FFmpeg</title>
<para><application>FFmpeg</application> is a solution to record, convert
and
- stream audio and video. It is a very fast video and audio converter and it
can
- also acquire from a live audio/video source. Designed to be intuitive, the
- command-line interface (<command>ffmpeg</command>) tries to figure out all
the
- parameters, when possible. <application>FFmpeg</application> can also
convert
- from any sample rate to any other, and resize video on the fly with a high
- quality polyphase filter. <application>FFmpeg</application> can use a
- video4linux compatible video source and any Open Sound System audio
+ stream audio and video. It is a very fast video and audio converter and it
+ can also acquire from a live audio/video source. Designed to be intuitive,
+ the command-line interface (<command>ffmpeg</command>) tries to figure out
+ all the parameters, when possible. <application>FFmpeg</application> can
+ also convert from any sample rate to any other, and resize video on the fly
+ with a high quality polyphase filter. <application>FFmpeg</application> can
+ use a video4linux compatible video source and any Open Sound System audio
source.</para>
+
<para>The developers of this package do not make releases very often, so
you
- may wish to use a snapshot instead of this release. If you do that, you
must
- expect the acceptable <command>configure</command> switches, and the
+ may wish to use a snapshot instead of this release. If you do that, you
+ must expect the acceptable <command>configure</command> switches, and the
dependencies, to change.</para>
- &lfs67_checked;
+ &lfs70_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -67,55 +68,39 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Required patch: <ulink
- url="&patch-root;/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;-gcc4-1.patch"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Required patch: <ulink
- url="&patch-root;/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;-amr_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist> -->
-
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">FFmpeg Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended">
- <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
- <xref linkend="lame"/>,
- <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
- <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
- <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
- <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>x264</ulink>
- (tested with the 20100615-2245 snapshot : x264 needs
- <ulink url="http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/";>yasm</ulink> unless you
- configure it with <literal>--disable-asm</literal>),
- <xref linkend="xvid"/></para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/";>yasm</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
- <para role="optional">
- <ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr";>AMR narrowband (floating
point)</ulink>,
+ <para role="optional"><xref linkend="faad2"/>, <xref linkend="lame"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libtheora"/>, <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libvpx"/>, <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>x264</ulink>
+ (x264 needs <ulink url="http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/";>yasm</ulink>
+ unless you configure it with <literal>--disable-asm</literal>),
+ <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr";>AMR narrowband
+ (floating point)</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr";>AMR wideband</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="faac"/>,
- <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
- <ulink url="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/gsm/";>GSM</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="imlib2"/>,
+ <xref linkend="faac"/>, <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://libgsm.sourcearchive.com/";>GSM</ulink>,
<xref linkend="liba52"/>,
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394";>libdc1394</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/src/trunk/";>libnut</ulink> (SVN
checkout),
+ <ulink url="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/src/trunk/";>libnut</ulink>
+ (SVN checkout),
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/librtmp";>librtmp</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/";>libschroedinger</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://medialibrary.sourceforge.net/";>MediaLibrary</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org";>OpenJPEG</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
- <xref linkend="speex"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/";>yasm</ulink>, and
- <xref linkend="tetex"/> or
+ <ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org";>OpenJPEG</ulink>
+ (<application>ffmpeg</application> includes code for it's own jpeg2000
+ encoder and decoder which is enabled by default), <xref linkend="speex"/>,
+ <!-- <xref linkend="tetex"/>, --> <xref linkend="sdl"/> and
<ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html";>texi2html</ulink>
- (to build HTML documentation)</para>
+ (to build HTML documentation).</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/ffmpeg"/></para>
@@ -128,62 +113,32 @@
<para>Install <application>FFmpeg</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
-<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/-number//' Makefile &&
-./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared \
- --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl \
- --enable-swscale --enable-postproc \
- --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame \
- --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \
- --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 \
- --enable-libxvid &&
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --disable-static
--enable-gpl &&
make</userinput></screen>
- <para>If you have <application>teTeX</application> or
- <application>texi2html</application> installed, the HTML
- documentation was built during the <command>make</command> process. If you
- wish to create additional formats of the documentation, you must have
- <application>teTeX</application> or <xref linkend="texlive"/> installed,
- and issue the following commands:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>cd doc &&
-for DOCNAME in faq ffmpeg-doc ffplay-doc ffprobe-doc ffserver-doc general
libavfilter; do
- texi2dvi -b -p $DOCNAME.texi
- texi2dvi -b $DOCNAME.texi
- dvips -o $DOCNAME.ps $DOCNAME.dvi
- if [ $DOCNAME = ffserver-doc ] || [ $DOCNAME = ffplay-doc ] || [ $DOCNAME
= ffprobe-doc ]; then \
- continue
- fi
- makeinfo --plaintext --force -o $DOCNAME.txt $DOCNAME.texi
-done &&
-cd .. &&
-unset DOCNAME</userinput></screen>
-
<para>If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed and wish to create
the API documentation (takes about 150 MB of space), issue
<command>doxygen</command>.</para>
- <para>If you wish to run the tests, issue: <command>make check</command> -
- that will take about 0.9 SBU and use another 365 MB of space.</para>
+ <para>This package does not come with a working test suite.</para>
- <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
+ <!-- make check is currently b0rken -->
+ <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+ user:</para>
+
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
-install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version; &&
-install -v -m644 doc/*.txt /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version; &&
-texi2html --version >/dev/null 2>&1 || make
install-man</userinput></screen>
+make install-man &&
+mkdir /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version; &&
+cp ../doc/*.txt /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version; &&
+texi2html --version &> /dev/null &&
+cp doc/*.html /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;</userinput></screen>
- <para>If you created additional formats of the documentation,
- install it by issuing the following commands as the
+ <para>If you used <command>doxygen</command> to create the API
+ documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 doc/*.{html,dvi,pdf,ps} \
- /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>If you created the API documentation, install it by issuing the
- following commands as the
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d
/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;/api &&
+<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir
/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;/api &&
cp -v doxy/*
/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;/api</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
@@ -191,47 +146,34 @@
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
- <para><parameter>sed -i 's/-number//' Makefile</parameter>: Recent versions
- of gnu <command>texi2html</command> error out because
- <command>-number</command> is now ambiguous (for number-footnote or
- number-sections). Neither choice makes any difference to what is created
- here, and the same is true with older versions of
- <command>texi2html</command>, e.g. from application
- <application>teTeX</application>.</para>
-
- <para><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter>: This switch is needed to
+ <para><option>--enable-shared</option>: This switch is needed to
build the shared libraries, otherwise only static libraries are built
and installed.</para>
- <para><parameter>--enable-pthreads</parameter>: This switch enables the
- build to link against the Posix threads library.</para>
-
- <para><parameter>--enable-gpl</parameter>: This switch enables the
- use of GPL code and permits support for postprocessing, swscale, liba54,
- xvid, x264, libfaad2 and x11grab to be selected.</para>
-
- <para><parameter>--enable-swscale</parameter>: This switch causes
libswscale
- to be built.</para>
-
- <para><parameter>--enable-postprocessing</parameter>: This switch causes
- libpostproc to be built.</para>
-
- <para><option>--enable-<replaceable><codec></replaceable></option>:
Review
- the available options and codecs using the
- <command>./configure --help</command> command. You must explicitly enable
- each optional codec. If you have not installed some of the recommended
- dependencies, do not enable those you have omitted.</para>
-
- <para><option>--disable-ffplay</option>: Only installs the server part.
- Use this option if <application>X</application> is not installed.</para>
-
<para><option>--disable-static</option>: This switch prevents the static
libraries from being built.</para>
- <para><command>if [ $DOCNAME = ffserver-doc ] ...</command> These three
- .texi files are rejected by <command>makeinfo</command> because of syntax
- errors.</para>
+ <para><option>--enable-gpl</option>: This switch enables the
+ use of GPL code and permits support for postprocessing, swscale and many
+ other features.</para>
+ <para><option>--enable-<replaceable><codec></replaceable></option>:
+ <application>ffmpeg</application> comes with code to compile decoders for
+ almost every codec you could think of. The only reason to enable a specific
+ codec (and make ffmpeg link to the prerequisite shared library installed on
+ your system) is to make ffmpeg compile an <emphasis>encoder</emphasis> for
+ that codec. Encoding video is a job for a specialist. If that is what you
+ want to do, study the output of <command>configure --help</command>.
+ Remember, the dependencies all install their own encoders that are often
+ better than <application>ffmpeg</application>'s.
+ <application>Ffmpeg</application> is an excellent collection of decoders.
+ If you just want to use ffmpeg to watch video or listen to music there is
+ no benefit from linking it to another library.</para>
+
+ <para><option>--disable-yasm</option>: use this option if you've not
+ installed yasm and you want what configure describes as "a crippled
+ build".</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration">
@@ -252,8 +194,7 @@
</indexterm>
<para>You'll find a sample ffserver configuration file at
- <ulink url="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/sample.html"/> (also
- <filename>doc/ffserver.conf</filename> in the source tree).</para>
+ <filename>doc/ffserver.conf</filename> in the source tree.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -269,12 +210,12 @@
<seglistitem>
<seg>ffmpeg, ffplay, ffprobe, and ffserver</seg>
- <seg>libavcodec.{so,a}, libavdevice.{so,a}, libavformat.{so,a},
- libavutil.{so,a}, libpostproc.{so,a}, and libswscale.{so,a}</seg>
- <seg>/usr/include/libavcodec, /usr/include/libavdevice,
- /usr/include/libavformat, /usr/include/libavutil,
/usr/include/postproc,
- /usr/include/libswscale, /usr/share/ffmpeg, and
- /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;</seg>
+ <seg>libavcodec.so, libavdevice.so, libavfilter.so, libavformat.so,
+ libavutil.so, libpostproc.so, and libswscale.so</seg>
+ <seg>/usr/include/libavcodec, /usr/include/libavdevice,
+ /usr/include/libavfilter, /usr/include/libavformat,
+ /usr/include/libavutil, /usr/include/postproc, /usr/include/libswscale,
+ /usr/share/ffmpeg, and /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-&ffmpeg-version;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -317,45 +258,56 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libavcodec">
- <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libavcodec.{so,a}</filename></term>
+ <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libavcodec.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a library containing the <application>FFmpeg</application>
codecs (both encoding and decoding).</para>
<indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavcodec">
- <primary sortas="c-libavcodec">libavcodec.{so,a}</primary>
+ <primary sortas="c-libavcodec">libavcodec.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libavdevice">
- <term><filename
class='libraryfile'>libavdevice.{so,a}</filename></term>
+ <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libavdevice.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is the <application>FFmpeg</application> device handling
library.</para>
<indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavdevice">
- <primary sortas="c-libavdevice">libavdevice.{so,a}</primary>
+ <primary sortas="c-libavdevice">libavdevice.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="libavfilter">
+ <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libavfilter.so</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is a library of filters that can alter video or audio between
+ the decoder and the encoder (or output).</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavfilter">
+ <primary sortas="c-libavfilter">libavfilter.so</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="libavformat">
- <term><filename
class='libraryfile'>libavformat.{so,a}</filename></term>
+ <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libavformat.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a library containing the file formats handling (mux and
demux code
for several formats) used by <command>ffplay</command> as well as
allowing the generation of audio or video streams.</para>
<indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavformat">
- <primary sortas="c-libavformat">libavformat.{so,a}</primary>
+ <primary sortas="c-libavformat">libavformat.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libavutil">
- <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libavutil.{so,a}</filename></term>
+ <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libavutil.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is the <application>FFmpeg</application> utility
library.</para>
<indexterm zone="ffmpeg libavutil">
- <primary sortas="c-libavutil">libavutil.{so,a}</primary>
+ <primary sortas="c-libavutil">libavutil.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -368,23 +320,23 @@
the first hyphen, so that in longindex.html it looks just right (one
library,
two packages) -->
<varlistentry id="libpostproc-from-ffmpeg">
- <term><filename
class='libraryfile'>libpostproc.{so,a}</filename></term>
+ <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpostproc.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is the <application>FFmpeg</application> post processing
library.</para>
<indexterm zone="ffmpeg libpostproc">
- <primary sortas="c-libpostproc">libpostproc.{so,a}</primary>
+ <primary sortas="c-libpostproc">libpostproc.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libswscale">
- <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libswscale.{so,a}</filename></term>
+ <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libswscale.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is the <application>FFmpeg</application> image rescaling
library.</para>
<indexterm zone="ffmpeg libswscale">
- <primary sortas="c-libswscale">libswscale.{so,a}</primary>
+ <primary sortas="c-libswscale">libswscale.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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