[regression] missing xvid and mp3 codec

Kees Cook <email address hidden> writes:

> The karmic version of mencoder appears to be missing many encoder
> codecs:

do you have libavcodec-unstripped-52 installed?

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 08:23:12AM -0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> do you have libavcodec-unstripped-52 installed?

Yup, sure do.

okay, confirmed.

yes, there seem to have been some changes that are related to how we seperate libavcodec from mplayer now. I'm trying something out right now. It seems that this can be fixed by adding some additional configure lines. stay tuned..

This bug was fixed in the package mplayer - 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu3

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mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * add additional build dependencies that are available in
    ubuntu/multiverse LP: #386449
  * prefer auto-detection and lavc variants of many codecs in debian/rules
  * install .desktop and .xpm file in the mplayer package

  [ Siegfried Gevatter ]
  * improve desktop file to conform (more) to the freedesktop file
    specification LP: #386505

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:24:25 +0200

This bug is labelled as "Fix Release" but although some of the codecs are back in the karmic mencoder, several are still missing:

mulberryst:~$ mencoder -oac help -ovc help
MEncoder SVN-r29237-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Available codecs:
   copy - frame copy, without re-encoding (useful for AC3)
   pcm - uncompressed PCM audio
   mp3lame - cbr/abr/vbr MP3 using libmp3lame
   lavc - FFmpeg audio encoder (MP2, AC3, ...)
   faac - FAAC AAC audio encoder

Available codecs:
   copy - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters.
   frameno - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS.
   raw - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly.
   nuv - nuppel video
   lavc - libavcodec codecs - best quality!
   vfw - VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html.
   qtvideo - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.
   x264 - H.264 encoding

In particular, 'xvid' is notably missing, which I think is the cause of bug #413270.

Please re-open..

Just remove --disable-xvid in debian/rules to re-enable the xvid support.

I am still missing some codecs (especially the mp3lame & xvid one)
user@host:/media/winF/VideoTmp$ mencoder -oac help -ovc help
MEncoder SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Available codecs:
   copy - frame copy, without re-encoding (useful for AC3)
   pcm - uncompressed PCM audio
   lavc - FFmpeg audio encoder (MP2, AC3, ...)
   faac - FAAC AAC audio encoder

Available codecs:
   copy - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters.
   frameno - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS.
   raw - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly.
   nuv - nuppel video
   lavc - libavcodec codecs - best quality!
   vfw - VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html.
   qtvideo - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.
   x264 - H.264 encoding

mp3 support is already available via the lavc, iff the package libavcodec-extra-51 is installed.

faac support should probably be removed due to unclear licensing of libfaac, cf. bug #374900

xvid is indeed missing, next upload will fix this.

This bug was fixed in the package mplayer - 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9

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mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Julien Lavergne ]
  * Renable xvid support by removing --disable-xvid in debian/rules.

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * Also enable mp3lame support (at least for now) LP: #386449
  * don't override the mplayer built-in defaults for the vo module LP: #446040
  * verified that mennuc's screensaver patch is enabled and works in the default
    configuration. LP: #439787

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:23:29 +0200