FreeBSD questions

[Andy Greenwood]

Si Thu wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thanks for your answer. 
>
>   
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> Again let me have one more question, I cannot encode the .wmv to .flv. It
> seems ffmpeg of port is outdated, but I downladed the port from the
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/?only_with_tag
> =RELEASE_6_2_0
>   

If you want the newer versions of software from the ports tree, don't 
limit your results by the tag. Basically, you're saying (IIRC) "I want 
the version of the port that was included with this release" instead of 
"I want the most recent version of this port." the release versions of 
the ports will only be updated for bug fixes, etc. Not new features. I'd 
suggest that you just use portsnap to update your local ports tree and 
go from there. If you've never used portsnap before, do the following

portsnap fetch extract

If you have already done the extract step above, then use this

portsnap fetch update

from now on. Every time you run this command, your ports tree is updated 
with the latest software. As long as you aren't on a really ancient 
release, software from the ports tree will ALMOST always compile and 
install fine. After your ports tree is updated, just

cd /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg
make deinstall    <- to remove the older version
make install clean   <-to install the new version

Now you should have the latest version and all it's capabilities. I 
don't know specifically if this will solve your wmv -> flv problem, but 
if not, you will be at a better place to ask questions. You would 
probably want to ask your questions about specific software at the 
developer's forums or mailing lists though, since this list is supposed 
to be mainly for questions about freebsd itself. Good Luck!
> Does it not update?
>
> Sithu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:greenwood.andy at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:44 PM
> To: Si Thu
> Cc: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD questions
>
> Si Thu wrote:
>   
>> Dear freeBSD,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I am running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on my staging server and having one
>>     
> problem
>   
>> about FFmpeg.
>>
>> I have read a lot of documentation and google on the web to get the
>>     
> solution
>   
>> for how to customize installation for ffmpeg utility. Normally, freeBSD
>> provides s lot of packages and ports that can be covered the average
>> requirements. 
>>
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>>
>> On my server, I have installed ffmpeg from the provided port with the
>> command "make install clean". After installation, I am able to encode the
>> input files from some location of server such "usr/local/bin" and cannot
>> implement with PHP(I used exec() command). FFmpeg-php is a object oriented
>> API for PHP and ffmpeg implementation. I was not able to install that API
>>     
> on
>   
>> freeBSD.
>>
>>  
>>
>> And there are some other configuration such "--enable-shared --enable-gpl"
>> and other libraries they can use in ffmpeg by configuration with
>>     
> ./configure
>   
>> command. But I was not able to find how to configure before install
>>     
> ffmpeg.
>   
>> If you would be able to give me a solution that would be great. I will
>> really appreciate.
>>   
>>     
>
> Don't know about ffmpeg-php or anything, as I've never used them. 
> However, you could do a few different things to change the configure 
> arguments. You could just edit the Makefile in the port's directory, or 
> you could define some make variables either through /etc/make.conf or by 
> defining them on the command line like
>
> make -DWITH_SWSCALER
>
> which will do the same thing as configure --enable-swscaler. Look 
> through the Makefile for the defaults (both switches you mentioned are 
> on by default in my ports tree) and all availible switches. Make syntax 
> is simple enough, so you should be able to figure it out without much 
> trouble. Also, you might want to run make configure instead of make 
> install or even just make, since that will run the configure script and 
> then stop, so you can look over the output and adjust as necessary 
> before continuing the build.
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>> Looking forward to get an answer
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>> kind regards,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Sithu 
>>
>> sithu at rareplay.com
>>
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