Installing FFmpeg in Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit)

Question

While converting a video feed from a GigE Cam into '.mp4' using FFmpeg(x264) with Opencv 2.4.9 ,I was getting error message as below.

  [libx264 @ 0x6a586e0] broken ffmpeg default settings detected
  [libx264 @ 0x6a586e0] use an encoding preset (e.g. -vpre medium)
  [libx264 @ 0x6a586e0] preset usage: -vpre <speed> -vpre <profile>
  [libx264 @ 0x6a586e0] speed presets are listed in x264 --help
  [libx264 @ 0x6a586e0] profile is optional; x264 defaults to high
  Could not open codec 'libx264': Unspecified error

So I did purge and auto-remove FFmpeg without knowing that Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 uses libav instead of FFmpeg.While uninstalling, it did not show any error message.

Now should i install libav or FFmpeg. Can someone please provide a link on the steps that I can follow.(Googling gave a number of links to install FFmpeg, but did not match with my requirement of compiling Opencv with FFmpeg enabled)

razzbee razzbee · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-02T05:09:23

Try This installer : https://github.com/razzbee/ffmpeg_installer Disclaimer : Created by me

Installing FFmpeg in Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit)

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