On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 04:36:43PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:10:24PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > Somehow, I doubt transcode will reappear in the book : development > was at berlios, and stopped some time ago, the site we were using is > just a copy of what is/was at berlios (because that will be going > away). Unfortunately, google is not very helpful for the *package* > transcode, it just finds references to transcoding. > Since current ffmpeg also prevents me using a system version of ffmpeg with gstreamer, I came back to this. Normally, I have nothing in /usr/local, so I decided to build old (0.10-series) ffmpeg and transcode in /usr/local.
For transcode, just a simple PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig in front of ./configure --prefix=/usr/local. Even the man-pages are found. I'll keep the programs in /usr/local/bin as a reminder to myself that they are using the old version of ffmpeg. I did this at the end of my main AV build, I suppose it's possible that the things using ffmpeg will now find the old headers but the new libraries - if ever I have to recompile them. Then I moved on to gst-ffmpeg. My only user for this is totem, so I really need it to be in /usr. Again, set PKG_CONFIG_PATH. After the install, almost everything that the libraries linked to was shown by ldd. The exceptions were libavcodec.so.53 and libavformat.so.53. I've added symlinks for those in /usr/lib - initially, that seemed a little scary (libavutil.so.51, libavcodec.so.54 and libpostproc.so.52 - both from libgstpostproc.so - provided by current ffmpeg, but it's probably no different from having two versions in /usr/lib which distros often do. I've now tested totem with all the video file formats I have available (it won't offer to play a DVD, probably a missing dependency) and this all seems to work. Not suitable for the book, but maybe I'll now gt back to DVD->CD ripping one of these days :) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
