[CentOS] ffmpeg

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Wed Aug 10 21:21:50 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:11:12PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> This is annoying. I've been trying to get motion working correctly on
> CentOS 6. First, there was no ffmpeg rpms. Now, I try to install it, and
> it's found on rpmfusion... except that it will not install. It insists
> that libfaad.so.0 is required, and tells me faad2-libs-2.6.1-5 from el5 is
> available. (I've done some stuff with my repos to try to get what I need
> for motion.)
> 
> I installed faad2-libs. It *still* will not install, telling me the same:
> Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5.x86_64
> (rpmfusion-free-updates5-testing)
>            Requires: libfaad.so.0()(64bit)
>            Available: 1:faad2-libs-2.6.1-5.el5.x86_64
> (rpmfusion-free-updates5-testing)
>                libfaad.so.0()(64bit)
> 
> I've run into problems with libfaad being missing before. Here's the real
> question: how were the ffmpeg and ffmpeg-libs *built*, if a libfaad
> package isn't available in the repository?
> 
>       mark
> 
I just use rpmforge's and never have issues. It's not always the latest
version, but I've always been able to do everything with it that I need. 


Don't know if that helps at all, probably doesn't, but the repoforge
ones have always worked well for me, through CentOS 5, and now 6.

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