Ultimate Edition Script (Ultamatix)

[2hot6ft2]

Me thinks me smelling a reinstall in the air.

[2hot6ft2]

Well re-installed. It did it again. It happening at the installing ffmpeg so I tried installing it from terminal and here is what I'm getting.

ffmpeg

I've looked all over and found a lot but not sure what to do to fix it. Things I've found:
http://ubuntusoftware.info/howto/repositories/ It's in the last code on the page but ibex is not listed so don't want to mess things up.
This is for ubuntu ibex, still don't see both files listed https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/i386/libavcodec-dev/3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3
and this is the same as above but a patch for the same and version -14 as opposed to -12 http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/debianonly/view/ffmpeg-debian/0.svn20080206-14

This one really didn't help http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186231&highlight=libavcodeccvs51

I wish I had started with Linux 20+ years ago instead of DOS and windows. All those batch files and scripts I wrote, and now I feel like I'm starting all over again. What a waste it was. Ok, stop laughing at me...

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[pch.shot]

Try adding the Medibuntu repositories to your list then do an update:
http://www.medibuntu.org/

[2hot6ft2]

Try adding the Medibuntu repositories to your list then do an update:
http://www.medibuntu.org/

It's already in there. I followed this "Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto" how to in the ubuntu forum http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683

Although I think the list is messed up. Actually I'm sure it is. Any chance someone can post what repos "should" be in the Third-Party Software repos tab so I can make it right?

[2hot6ft2]

Here's what's in mine right now. Mind you I know it's messed up.

3rd Party sources

And found this in the ubuntu forum from here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6034283&postcount=10
" Re: Medibuntu ffmpeg for Intrepid Help?
It looks like ffmpeg was removed from the Intrepid Medibuntu repos. Not sure why.
http://packages.medibuntu.org/intrepid/index.html
And now I can't encode certain stuff because of this unknown encoder xvid error."

So what's the verdict? Do I have it messed up real bad? I'm not getting any duplicate lists right now that's one plus.

[pch.shot]

Here is a link that may solve your problems:
http://debian-multimedia.org/ The build of ffmpeg from here will have all the proprietary codecs activated. Any Ubuntu build of ffmpeg will not be able to encode to divx or any other proprietary(closed source) codec because of their philosophy on free software(as in open source). You will have to install all the depedencies as well to get things to work. Once you get ffmpeg up and running you may what to give this a try: http://code.google.com/p/winff/
This is my repository list:

[2hot6ft2]

Thanks pch.shot I'll give that a try when I get back from town later. You must have done some searching to find that and I appreciate your hard work.

[pch.shot]

avidemux will transcode video as well. It is a bit slow, but will do the trick. You may have to install ubuntu-restricted-extras to get it to work, however.

[pch.shot]

Actually, I went through this adventure a while back with ffmpeg. Once hardy came out medibuntu had a good build for it and everything was fine. Now with intrepid we are back to square one. I don't know how to compile ffmpeg from source or configure it(or want to know, Nick). It is the best transcoder for Linux and there always seems to be issues. I don't understand why you just can't get a debian build that is easy to install. For this reason, I went back to using Windows tools. I actually got into a spat on another forum with an admin who insisted that the medibuntu build worked fine(which it didn't of course). I have the one hour rule. If I can get software to work in an hour, I try something else!!!! Try avidemux first before you go on the ffmpeg adventure. You may save yourself a lot of time and headaches. Save you ffmpeg adventure for a time when your patience is at a high level!!!

[2hot6ft2]

Actually, I went through this adventure a while back with ffmpeg. Once hardy came out medibuntu had a good build for it and everything was fine. Now with intrepid we are back to square one. I don't know how to compile ffmpeg from source or configure it(or want to know, Nick). It is the best transcoder for Linux and there always seems to be issues. I don't understand why you just can't get a debian build that is easy to install. For this reason, I went back to using Windows tools. I actually got into a spat on another forum with an admin who insisted that the medibuntu build worked fine(which it didn't of course). I have the one hour rule. If I can get software to work in an hour, I try something else!!!! Try avidemux first before you go on the ffmpeg adventure. You may save yourself a lot of time and headaches. Save you ffmpeg adventure for a time when your patience is at a high level!!!

LMAO, I'll definitely take that advice considering what I'm finding and you're certainly more knowledgeable than I am. Here's what I found. First synaptic IS showing ffmpeg as installed It also shows libavutil49 installed and when trying to install the 2 dependencies (from the link you provided) that ffmpeg says it NEEDS when trying to install it thru apt-get I get this (a picture says it better)

avidemux it is. Too many things going on to keep after this quirk.
Thanks pch.shot for the help. On to my other projects which don't belong in this thread so I'll see if I can't either find the answers or at least the proper place to ask.