get_iplayer Digest, Vol 18, Issue 25

[Neill Mitchell]

Hi.

Okay, I built ffmpeg version 0.8.3 as suggested :) The only gotcha is 
for some bizarre reason the ubuntu forum instructions on how to compile 
it bizarrely install everything to /usr/local/bin, so it is not found. I 
simply added -prefix=/usr to the configure options and then it all works.

Thanks to everyone for their help :) I don't understand why Ubuntu 
consistently ships such old versions of ffmpeg.

Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:10:01 +0100 From: dinkypumpkin 
<dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org Subject: 
Re: Dud rows of pixels with ffmpeg-static Message-ID: 
<4E9C2929.50300 at gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 
format=flowed On 17/10/2011 12:01, Jon Davies wrote:
>> On 17 October 2011 10:57, Neill Mitchell<neill at nlkmitchell.com>   wrote:
>>> Failing that, I'll build the very latest from source. I'll let you know how
>>> I get on!
>> If you're rolling your own,  be aware of this earlier post from dinkypumpkin:
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>> "FFmpeg DIY warning":
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-September/001940.html
> For anyone keeping score, the bug that prompted my ridiculously alarmist
> posting has been patched:
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> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-September/001945.html
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> However, I would still suggest pulling a tagged release for DIY builds
> in order to have a little bit of assurance that glitches like the above
> won't be present.
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