Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

[lrhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> lrhorer wrote:
>>> Have you tried getting packages from
>>> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>?
>>>     
>>
>> On your advice, I just tried there.  There are a ton of unmet
>> dependencies, many of which I can't find at all.  For example, the
>> ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a
>> dozen others) which is not loaded.  When I try to load libavcodec52,
>> it depends on libdirac-encoder0, which does not seem to be on the
>> site, and indeed which I cannot find on any of the Debian distro
>> sites I
>> know.  It's not the only one, by a long shot.
>>   
> 
> Are you trying to manually install the .deb? You can do that, but
> it'll be complicated: you'll need to download all dependencies from
> that site, and the dependencies of those dependencies, and so on.
> 
> Let apt do the work for you. Add the repository (address and
> instructions are on that page) and then just use aptitude install
> ffmpeg.

I tried that, but I could not get it to work.  I think I was setting up
my sources list incorrectly.  I must have been inputting something
wrong, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what.