enable mp3 and amr support in ffmpeg ( Ubuntu )
July 12th, 2006 by 
danny
( This has been tested with Ubuntu Dapper Drake, an updated version for Edgy Eft can be found here. )
This little howto describes how to enable mp3 and amr support in ffmpeg, so you can use ffmpeg to convert any movie to and from 3gp (mobile phones) and flv (adobe flash video) formats.
I’ll assume you already have the c compilers, patch tools and standard development packages installed.
First make sure that you have enabled the “multiverse” repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list and execute the following commands :
apt-get update
apt-get install dpkg-dev libimlib2-dev texi2html liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libmp4v2-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev debhelper libogg-dev libvorbis-dev liba52-dev libdts-dev libsdl1.2-dev libraw1394-dev libdc1394-13-dev libtheora-dev libgsm1-dev
Note: the above line is one line, no newlines.
Change your directory to your build directory, I always use /usr/local/src for this :
cd /usr/local/src
Get the ffmpeg source package :
apt-get source ffmpeg
Get the amr patch :
wget http://blogger.rukker.org/dl/ffmpeg_enable_amr.patch.bz2
Go to the ffmpeg source directory and apply the patch :
cd ffmpeg-0.cvs20050918
bzcat ../ffmpeg_enable_amr.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
Build the complete package with “risky” options :
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=”risky” dpkg-buildpackage
Go back to /usr/local/src and install the ffmpeg package :
cd ..
dpkg -i ffmpeg_0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1_i386.deb
Now we have ffmpeg with mp3 and amr support, now we have to prevent apt from upgrading our newly created package with newer packages without mp3 and amr support. This is called “pinning”. Create the following file with your favorite editor ( vi !! ) :
vi /etc/apt/preferences
And add the following lines :
Package: ffmpeg
Pin: version 0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1
Pin-Priority: 1001
Now we can convert all kinds of formats, incuding flv and 3gp!
Convert an avi to flv :
ffmpeg -i movie.avi -acodec mp3 -ar 11025 movie.flv
Convert 3gp to mpeg4 avi :
ffmpeg -i movie.3gp -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec mp3 movie.avi
Please let me know if it worked for you ( or did not work 
)…
Posted in Linux | 
July 27th, 2006 at 05:07
Hi,
Is there a particular gcc version that I need to use to get this working? I had gcc-4.0 and the compile failed on swf.c. I then install gcc-3.3 because I found some complaints that swf.c didn’t work with gcc-3.4+. I did a make clean and compiled with gcc-3.3 and it’s now failing on dsputil_mmx.c:
i386/dsputil_mmx.c: In function `transpose4×4′:
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:623: error: can’t convert between vector values of different size
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:624: error: can’t convert between vector values of different size
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:625: error: can’t convert between vector values of different size
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:626: error: can’t convert between vector values of different size
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:630: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhwd’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:630: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhwd’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:630: error: incompatible types in assignment
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:631: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhwd’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:631: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhwd’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:631: error: incompatible types in assignment
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:633: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhdq’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:633: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhdq’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:633: error: incompatible types in assignment
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:636: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhdq’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:636: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of `__builtin_ia32_punpckhdq’
i386/dsputil_mmx.c:636: error: incompatible types in assignment
make[1]: *** [i386/dsputil_mmx.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-0.cvs20050918/libavcodec’
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
Any of that look familiar?
Thanks for your help.
Nick Shaver
July 27th, 2006 at 10:07
I had no problems compiling ffmpeg with the standard Ubuntu Dapper Drake gcc 4.0.3 version…
My guess is that one of your development packages must be corrupt, missing or semething like that. Try to reinstall all development packages… Delete all of the ffmpeg sources and just start over…
Or just download my pre-compiled binary at :
http://blogger.rukker.org/dl/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1_i386.deb
Install the binary and don’t forget to Pin this version of ffmpeg.
August 18th, 2006 at 18:08
Can you explain how to compile mplayer with amr and 3gp audio support?
October 17th, 2006 at 19:10
Hi, I got a problem appling the patch:
egaite@egaite-desktop:/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-0.cvs20050918$ sudo bzcat ffmpeg_enable_amr.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
patching file debian/rules
patch: **** Can’t rename file /tmp/poGEjLYt to debian/rules : Permission denied
I will apreciated your help, thanks.
October 24th, 2006 at 22:10
xavi,
check your permissions on the file debian/rules or…
just do the whole thing all over again as user root, do ’sudo bash’ and repeat the steps…
danny
October 27th, 2006 at 16:10
heyas all.
my 40 gig drive is going to good use now. I have installed UBUNTU and have ordered KUBUNTU.
I dont know how to install the driver for my ati radeon 9600xt.
Actually i dont know if i am meant to be downloading and installing XFREE86 or the XORG version of the driver. I am downloading them both but i dont know how to do anything in Linux really.
I dont know where I am meant to set up my modem or set up a net account. (no INETWIZ.EXE)
So yeah, can someone help me out with getting my ATI driver installed?
and does anyone know of a good long PDF file i can read and wrap my brain around.
I’m still a Windows user, but I want to use Linux as much as possible.
Thanks.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:11
That’s really cool!
I’ve been looking for this for long time
using Ubuntu Dapper (Kernel 2.6.15-27-686 GNU/Linux)
miss tress > It takes some time but I think you will get the Ati card working…next time or if you can change it get a Nvidia card, I think we al agree that nvidia drivers are more stable on Linux distributions. You can read a lot about configuring ATI on http://ubuntuforums.org/ .
November 28th, 2006 at 18:11
Your pre-compiled package works fine, thanks a lot! I tried to pin ffmpeg, but adept updater still wants to update it. I pinned it just like the other version on instructions, should I do something differently?
December 1st, 2006 at 04:12
excellent..
know at least I can listen/convert my recordings from my mobile to mp3/wav or anything other than amr..
thanks
December 30th, 2006 at 17:12
thi is my problem when i’m trying to build my package
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=”risky” dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is ffmpeg
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 3:0.cvs20060823-3.1ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Sebastian Dröge
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 0.cvs20060823-3.1ubuntu1
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: quilt
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
thanks
January 1st, 2007 at 20:01
I got the same problem as sun, using Edgy Eft and ffmpeg-0.cvs20060823.
January 2nd, 2007 at 21:01
sun & hex:
you haven’t quilt. To fix do:
# apt-get install quilt
January 2nd, 2007 at 21:01
sudo apt-get install quilt
You need to have quilt installed - see the line “Unmet build dependencies”?
January 6th, 2007 at 22:01
Hola!
I wonder if you are planning a 64bits support?
Thanks in advance
Alejandro
January 15th, 2007 at 15:01
Hi, I already installed quilt
$ sudo apt-get install quilt
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
quilt is already the newest version.
But still got the same error message when attempting to build ffmpeg
$ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=”risky” dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is ffmpeg
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 3:0.cvs20060823-3.1ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Sebastian Dröge
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 0.cvs20060823-3.1ubuntu1
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: quilt
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
Do you guys have any idea why? Thanks in advance.
January 15th, 2007 at 16:01
I’ll post an updated version for ubuntu edgy eft as soon as possible…
January 23rd, 2007 at 16:01
thx
January 23rd, 2007 at 17:01
But I’m a bit busy lately…
OSS is getting too populair! Too much work, too much fun
January 29th, 2007 at 09:01
Great post. I?ll think about that.
February 1st, 2007 at 06:02
thanks for a nice post such as this.
February 2nd, 2007 at 18:02
Another thanks! Good job. BTW, I had a bunch of dependency problems so I just downloaded your binary package.
February 27th, 2007 at 20:02
If anyone needs pre-compiled binary for amd64, I put mine here:
http://chew.nitric.co.za/ffmpeg_0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
March 7th, 2007 at 06:03
Hi Animal…
You got a really interesting blog- and I found tyhis post about compiling ffmpeg to be very interesting and informative.
Thanks and please keep up the great work…
-N
March 7th, 2007 at 06:03
by the way; is there someplace I can get the same info on windows ?
Preferably abt compiling FFMPEG with MS Visual C++ 2005 ?
- just wondering… would appreciate if you can please mail me, since I’m not all that regular in checking blogs nor too savy about the techs that allow tracking blogs…
March 8th, 2007 at 16:03
Nice.
Quilt is also needed to compile the package.
March 21st, 2007 at 05:03
I had to change `dpkg -i ffmpeg_0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1_i386.deb` to `dpkg -i ffmpeg_0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1.1_i386.deb` (and the following steps to match).
Other than that, worked flawlessly!
TY!
March 21st, 2007 at 17:03
This is what I tried and the results. I could not find a coverted file.
donald@donald:~$ ffmpeg -i abagail.3gp -vcodec mpeg4 -a codec mp3 abagail.mov
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: –prefix=/usr –libdir=${prefix}/lib –incdir=${prefix}/includ e/ffmpeg –enable-shared –enable-mp3lame –enable-gpl –enable-faad –mandir=${ prefix}/share/man –enable-vorbis –enable-pthreads –enable-faac –enable-xvid –enable-dts –enable-amr_nb –enable-amr_wb –enable-pp –enable-libogg –enabl e-a52 –enable-theora –enable-libgsm –enable-x264 –enable-a52bin
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on Jun 4 2006 15:08:12, gcc: 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘abagail.3gp’:
Duration: 00:00:09.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 79 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng), 10.00 fps(r): Video: h263, yuv420p, 128×96
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: amr_nb, 8000 Hz, mono
ffmpeg: unrecognized option ‘-a’
donald@donald:~$
April 16th, 2007 at 21:04
It worked great. Thanks!
I am running ubuntu dapper drake. I pretty much cut and pasted all the commands and it worked first try.
I then tested it by converted a quicktime file to 3gp and tested the file on a phone. Both the video and audio worked.
Thanks,
Craig