hi, this post also helped me out on ubuntu 10.10 . as a followup for those who still don't know how to update libavcodec on ubuntu 10.10:
r...@samoslinux:~$ sudo apt-get install libavcodec-unstripped-52 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmodplug1 libtagc0 libnetclasses0 libpopplerkit0 libavifile-0.7c2 libmpcdec6 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libavcodec-extra-52 libavutil-extra-50 libdirac-encoder0 libfaad2 libopenjpeg2 Suggested packages: libfaad0 The following packages will be REMOVED: libavcodec52 libavutil50 The following NEW packages will be installed: libavcodec-extra-52 libavcodec-unstripped-52 libavutil-extra-50 libdirac-encoder0 libfaad2 libopenjpeg2 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5,504kB of archives. After this operation, 1,438kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe libavutil-extra-50 i386 4:0.6-2ubuntu3 [112kB] ...clipped for shortness... after that r...@samoslinux:~$ ffmpeg -i 4PbTOFQ4JOs.flv -acodec mp3 fff.mp3 FFmpeg version 0.6-4:0.6-2ubuntu6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Oct 5 2010 22:35:47 with gcc 4.4.5 configuration: --extra-version=4:0.6-2ubuntu6 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau ...clipped again to keep it short ... audiodatarate : 119 totaldatarate : 731 framerate : 30 bytelength : 35757512 canseekontime : true sourcedata : B4A7DD146MM1289927317339780 purl : pmsg : Duration: 00:06:31.06, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 739 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x480 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 617 kb/s, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 60 tbc Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 122 kb/s Output #0, mp3, to 'fff.mp3': Metadata: TSSE : Lavf52.64.2 Stream #0.0: Audio: libmp3lame, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.1 -> #0.0 Press [q] to stop encoding size= 3060kB time=391.65 bitrate= 64.0kbits/s video:0kB audio:3060kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.001053% r...@samoslinux:~$ ls *.mp3 4PbTOFQ4JOs.mp3 fff.mp3 oo.mp3 r...@samoslinux:~$ again thanks for the clues. raf -- Unknown encoder mp3 error in ffmpeg (ibex) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296922 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs