[packman] Re: [PM] ffmpeg 0.4.9 (openSUSE 10.2/i686)

[Richard S.]

Manfred Tremmel wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 20:54 schrieb Steve Wesemeyer:
>   
>> On Sunday 08 July 2007 16:59, you wrote:
>>     
>>> Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 16:50 schrieb Steve Wesemeyer:
>>>       
>>>> I just installed the latest ffmpeg packages from packman(opensuse
>>>> 10.2 i586) and when trying to encode xvid or h264 files using
>>>> thinliquidfilm  I get either unknown codec xvid or unknown codex
>>>> aac(repsectively).
>>>>         
>>> Both codecs are compiled in:
>>>
>>> x264 enabled              yes
>>> XviD enabled              yes
>>>
>>> Maybe it's a syntax change in ffmpeg. What's the commandline option
>>> and what's the output of ffmpeg?
>>>       
>> Manfred,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response. It's very much appreciated.
>>
>> The command that gets executed is the following:
>>
>> ffmpeg -y -i
>> "/home/swesemeyer/ThomasAndFriends_MollysSpecialSpecial.mpg" -vcodec
>> xvid -maxrate 768 -b 600 -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 128
>> -ar 48000 -ac 2 -s
>>     
>
> And here's the problem, all rates are interpreted as bit/s and not as 
> kbit/s like in the past (You should have this problem in videocdecs in 
> the past version, too. Only for audio it was added this time). The 
> parameters -maxrate, -b and -ab have to be changed (-maxrate 768k -b 
> 600k ... -ab 128k).
>
>   
The names of the codecs changed too. You have to use -vcodec libxvid and
-acodec libfaac.

Regards
Richard