GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2 SOLVED

[michael norman]

On 05/03/2017 11:51 AM, SquarePenguin wrote:

> I can't tell you why you're facing the error but my suspicion would be
> that disabling the h264 decoder is somehow affecting how gip is handling
> the remuxing. Perhaps it needs to decode the first frame of the stream
> or something? I can't say.
>
> I guess the simplest thing to do would be to simply install a 'known
> good' static ffmpeg binary and tell gip to use that instead. It wouldn't
> affect your system ffmpeg install, it would just be a stand alone binary
> for gip to use.
>
> There is a very clear guide to do this in the wiki. It's usually used
> for old distros but it simply installs a separate ffmpeg binary for gip
> to use that's known to work so would hopefully work for you to.
>
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix#ffmpeg-for-old-linux-distros
>

Many thanks, that has solved the problem.