[mythtv-users] ffmpeg and some codecs

[Duncan Brown]

backuppc at sundquist.imapmail.org wrote:
>
> and
>
> user at mythtv:~$ ffmpeg -i /var/lib/mythtv/videos/sectionals/MVI_0825.AVI
> -f mov -b 1800 -maxrate 2500 -vcodec mpeg4 -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -s 320x240
> -acodec aac -ab 128 sectionals.ipod.mov
> FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et
> al.
>   configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler
>   --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora
>   --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug
>   --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libfaad
>   --enable-libfaac --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-liba52
>   --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
>   libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
>   libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
>   libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
>   built on Jul 29 2008 18:21:25, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)
> Input #0, avi, from '/var/lib/mythtv/videos/sectionals/MVI_0825.AVI':
>   Duration: 00:02:30.6, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 14480 kb/s
>   Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 640x480, 30.00 fps(r)
>   Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_u8, 11024 Hz, mono, 88 kb/s
> Unknown codec 'aac'
>
>   
Try using -acodec libfaac instead, the commands for ffmpeg all changed a 
while back. Have a read of the man

Dunc