Update for Razuna 1.4.6 If you are upgrading from a previous version of Razuna 1.4.6 you should update your x264 and ffmpeg installation. Please note that ffmpeg has changed from a Subversion to a GIT repository!

Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu

Actually it is very easy to install FFmpeg under Ubuntu with the apt-get command. Unfortunately, the default FFmpeg installation doesn't let you include the latest codecs which are needed by Razuna. Thus you have to compile FFmpeg yourself. Just follow the steps below. It is very easy!

Install the Dependencies

Uninstall x264, libx264-dev, and ffmpeg if they are already installed.

Next, get all of the packages you will need to install FFmpeg and x264 (you may need to enable the universe and multiverse repositories):

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Ubuntu 9.10

Install x264

Get the most current source files, compile, and install. You can run "./configure --help" to see what additional features you can enable/disable.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Ubuntu 9.10

Troubleshooting

If the configure complains about nasm requiring version 1.x, then you need to download and build yasm with the latest build. Follow these intsructions to do so (each line is a command!):

Now try to configure X264 again.

Install libvpx

This is used to encode and decode VP8 video (WebM).

Install lame

Used for MP3.

Install libtheora (only needed on Ubuntu 9.10)

This is used to encode to Theora, the video type usually found in OGG/OGV files. The repository libtheora is too old, so it must be compiled.

Install FFMpeg

Get the most current source files from the official FFmpeg SVN, compile, and install.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Ubuntu 9.10

Updating FFmpeg and x264

Development of FFmpeg and x264 is active and an occasional update can give you new features and bug fixes. To update FFmpeg and x264 you will need to remove the packages, make distclean, update the source, recompile, and install.

To update x264:

Now compile x264 as shown earlier in the guide starting with the x264 ./configure line. You can update libvpx if you installed that too:

Now continue with the installation starting with the libvpx ./configure line. Now update FFmpeg:

Finish the installation starting with the FFmpeg ./configure line from above.