This HowTo describes how to install the transcoding tools under Ubuntu 14.04
For Open Source Transcoding you have to install the transcoding tools (MPlayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, flvtool2, faststart). As the Ubuntu packages do not support all required formats, we have to compile the required tools.
In most cases please just copy & paste the code into your shell and execute the commands as root.
First we do some maintenance and remove some packages (if existing):
cd /usr/src apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get remove x264 ffmpeg mplayer mencoder
We install the easy to use editor joe and some tools:
apt-get install joe make automake g++ bzip2 unzip patch subversion yasm
We install the win codecs of the MPlayer vendor:
NOTE: on 32 bit systems install the codecs as follows:
wget http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2 tar xvjf essential-20071007.tar.bz2 mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs cp -Rvp essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
NOTE: on 64 bit systems install the codecs as follows:
wget http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-amd64-20071007.tar.bz2 tar xvjf essential-amd64-20071007.tar.bz2 mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs cp -Rvp essential-amd64-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
Next, on both systems we have to extend the search path in /etc/ld.so.conf:
joe /etc/ld.so.conf
… and check, if the following lines exist within the file. If not, please add:
/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
then please execute
# ldconfig
We install some codecs:
apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev zlib1g-dev libfaad-dev libfaac-dev libgsm1-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libspeex-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libxvidcore-dev libxvidcore4 libmp3lame-dev libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev
We install x264:
wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/last_stable_x264.tar.bz2 tar xvjf last_stable_x264.tar.bz2 # VORSICHT: Pfad im nächsten Befehl bitte ersetzen: cd x264-snapshot-XXXXXXXX-XXXX-stable/ ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic make && make install cd ..
We install libvpx:
wget http://webm.googlecode.com/files/libvpx-v1.2.0.tar.bz2 tar xvjf libvpx-v1.2.0.tar.bz2 cd libvpx-v1.2.0 ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic make make install cd ..
We install MPlayer/mencoder :
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.1.tar.gz tar xvzf MPlayer-1.1.tar.gz cd MPlayer-1.1/ ./configure make && make install ldconfig cd ..
…and ffmpeg:
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.2.1.tar.bz2 tar xvjf ffmpeg-2.2.1.tar.bz2 cd ffmpeg-2.2.1/ ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid make make install ldconfig
We install qt-faststart
qt-faststart is part of ffmpeg. We´re still in the ffmpeg-2.2.1/ directory and change into the tools/ folder. Here we make qt-faststart and copy it to /usr/local/bin/:
cd tools make qt-faststart cp qt-faststart /usr/local/bin/ cd /usr/src
We install flvtool2:
flvtool2 is not part of the Ubuntu 14.04 repositories. And flvtool2 has to be compiled with ruby-1.8.6 that is not part of Ubuntu 14.04, too. To make it even more complicate we have to solve an error in the ruby package, before we compile. So please stay attentive with the next steps:
cd /usr/src wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2 tar xvjf ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2 cd ruby-1.8.6
There´s a typo in the math.c file. Open the file with your preferred editor (we use joe here):
joe math.c
Edit line 37 in math.c and change it like this:
old: #elif define(ERANGE)
new: #elif defined(ERANGE)
…and save it.
Now we can compile and install ruby 1.8.6:
./configure make make install cd ..
Now we get and install flvtool2:
wget https://github.com/unnu/flvtool2/archive/master.zip unzip master.zip cd flvtool2-master/ /usr/local/bin/ruby setup.rb config /usr/local/bin/ruby setup.rb setup /usr/local/bin/ruby setup.rb install cd ..
The pathes to the transcoding-tools are now:
| Mplayer: | /usr/local/bin/mplayer |
| mencoder: | /usr/local/bin/mencoder |
| ffmpeg: | /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg |
| flvtool2: | /usr/local/bin/flvtool2 |
| faststart: | /usr/local/bin/qt-faststart |