[MEncoder-users] mencoder -> x264 ?

[Grozdan]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Grozdan <neutrino8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Bob Tennent <rdtennent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >|I've been using
>>  >|>
>>  >|> mencoder $FILE.mpg -o $FILE.mp4 -oac mp3lame -ovc x264
>>  >|
>>  >|> to compress output from a TV capture card.
>>  >|
>>  >|This will not create an mp4 file, regardless if you give it an mp4
>>  >|extension or not. It'll be plain avi with an mp4 extension. If you
>>  >|want true mp4, use -of lavf with mencoder and encode without b-frames
>>  >|(as mencoder is broken when using b-frames with the lavf muxer).
>>  >|Better yet, encode to avi (or raw) and use mp4box from gpac to mux
>>  >|into mp4
>>
>> I probably don't need mp4; handbrake uses the .mp4 extension so that's
>> what I did.
>
> handbrake != mencoder ;)
>
>>
>>  >|> But the mplayer package on my system has just been updated from
>>  >|>
>>  >|> mplayer-1.0-74_snap20100403.fc12
>>  >|>
>>  >|> to
>>  >|>
>>  >|> mplayer-1.0-76_snap20100619.fc12
>>  >|>
>>  >|> and now x264 is not listed by mencoder -ovc help. Was the binary
>>  >|> package not built correctly?
>>
>>  >|Your problem is that the packager has not built mplayer with libx264
>>  >|support thus it won't show up in -ovc help. Either bug the packager
>>  >|to correct his silly mistake or download x264 from git and mplayer
>>  >|from svn and compile them yourself
>>
>> I added --enable-x264 to the configure. The compilations went well but the
>> linking fails:
>
> You should only use --enable-x264 when absolutely needed and you're
> sure you meet all the requirements. Recommended is to not explicitly
> use args in configure and let the configure detect stuff by itself. If
> it can't, it can mean four things
>
> 1. there's a bug in configure
> 2. your system is missing something thus it skips it
> 3. you have it, but it's too old so configure skips it
> 4. configure can't detect it as it's in a non-standard path (rarely happens)
>
>>
>>  libmpcodecs/ve_x264.o: In function `put_image':
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x1f9): undefined reference to `x264_encoder_encode'
>>  libmpcodecs/ve_x264.o: In function `x264enc_set_param':
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x373): undefined reference to `x264_param_default_preset'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x539): undefined reference to `x264_param_apply_profile'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x59a): undefined reference to `x264_param_default'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x5b5): undefined reference to `x264_param_apply_fastfirstpass'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x5ce): undefined reference to `x264_param_parse'
>>  libmpcodecs/ve_x264.o: In function `config':
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x78a): undefined reference to `x264_param_parse'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x7e2): undefined reference to `x264_encoder_open_92'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x848): undefined reference to `x264_param_default'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x874): undefined reference to `x264_encoder_headers'
>>  libmpcodecs/ve_x264.o: In function `control':
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x947): undefined reference to `x264_encoder_delayed_frames'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x98a): undefined reference to `x264_encoder_encode'
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x9ef): undefined reference to `x264_encoder_delayed_frames'
>>  libmpcodecs/ve_x264.o: In function `uninit':
>>  ve_x264.c:(.text+0x12c): undefined reference to `x264_encoder_close'

which gcc version are you using? gcc 4.4.0 and 4.4.1 are known to
miscompile mplayer (and I think x264 too). Also make sure you install
a supported yasm/nasm package


>>
>> Here's what I have that's x264-related on my system:
>>
>> x264-devel-0.92-12_20100401.2245.fc12.i686
>> x264-0.92-12_20100401.2245.fc12.i686
>> libx264_92-0.92-12_20100401.2245.fc12.i686
>>
>> Are more recent versions needed?
>
> Yes, probably the latest from x264 git
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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