[FFmpeg-user] Unknown encoder 'libx264'

[Joshua Tidsbury]

On 2012-09-01, at 6:59 PM, "blacky94" <blackmental09 at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with ffmpeg, always when i try to encode a video with this
> line: 
> ffmpeg -i "mov.mkv" -an -b 700k -r 25 -vcodec libx264 "output.mp4"
> on my vserver (debian 6.0), the error message Unknown encoder 'libx264'
> appears. 
> I used this tutorial to install ffmpeg
> http://www.zoharbabin.com/build-and-install-ffmpeg-and-x264-on-debian-squeeze-the-dumb-guide.

The tutorial has errors and is not including libx264 when compiling.

The configure line when setting up for the ffmpeg compile needs to include "--enable-libx264"

Josh