On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 01:59 +0930, Shawn Haggett wrote:
> Francesco Romani wrote:
> > On 10/20/07, SIEGERSTEIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> hi! I can't capture or convert video with x264 encoder.
> >
> >
> > Ack. I'll investigate ASAP, now I'm pretty busy.
> > In the meantime, using 1.1.0alpha4, please try using NMS modules (-y
> > x264,lame,avi -N h264,mp3) and report the results.
> >
> > Bests,
>
> Thanks for that. For me at least, the above works.
Ok, nice to read.
>
> Just as a bit more information, I'm using Gentoo (which means this was
> compiled on my machine), I'm not sure if the Gentoo package missed an
> option to a configure script or something though.
Can you post the output of the command
$ ffmpeg -formats | grep 264
?
> After digging through the code in CVS a little, it seems the problem is
> at the line in export_ffmpeg.c:
> /* -- get it -- */
> lavc_venc_codec = avcodec_find_encoder_by_name(codec->name);
> if (!lavc_venc_codec) {
> tc_log_warn(MOD_NAME, "Could not find a FFMPEG codec for '%s'.",
> codec->name);
> return TC_EXPORT_ERROR;
> }
>
> avcodec_find_encoder_by_name can't find the codec.
That usually means that codec was not enabled at ./configure() time
and/or not registered, but we register all avalaible libavcodec codecs
before to finding the encoder.
> From poking around
> some more this seems to be defined in <ffmpeg/avcodec.h>. This leads me
> to wonder if it is a problem in transcode, a problem in ffmpeg or
> something to do with the way Gentoo has built things.
I'm going to do some tests on my box, but since nobody has changed this
code in a while, I'm pretty confident that it will work (so, I'll bet
this issue is caused by a build/local problem).
Bests,
--
Francesco Romani // Ikitt
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