[FFmpeg-user] "ERROR: libx264 not found" Ubuntu 11.10

[medi]

You're right, Ubuntu package repository has older version of lib264
and definitely you need to build it from source. I saw the guide from
the the link on your first mail, the guide seems all correct. I think
checkinstall command produce .deb package and install it afterward,
however you can install .deb packages using this command :
sudo dpkg -i package.deb

but the problem is that after installation Ubuntu cannot locate
libx264.so library file, in your case.

Please uninstall the package installed from Ubuntu respository:
sudo apt-get remove x264 libx264-dev

the build and installed it from source, according to the reference:
cd x264
./configure --enable-static
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion="3:$(./version.sh | \
    awk -F'[" ]' '/POINT/{print $4"+git"$5}')" --backup=no --deldoc=yes \
    --fstrans=no --default

then please provide the result for these commands :

sudo ls -al /usr/local/lib | grep libx264.so
sudo ls -al /usr/lib/ | grep libx264.so
sudo cat /etc/ld.so.conf


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Andreas Grehn <andreas.grehn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your time!
>
> It however did not do the trick.
> I can not locate the libx264.so file anywhere. Whereis turns out blank and
> so does locate.
> I tried installing with apt-get and instead of "ERROR: libx264 not found."
> I got "ERROR: libx264 version must be >= 0.118.". My guess is I have to
> build from source since the repository(?) is somewhat dated?
>
> I have tried to building x264 from source (according to the guide linked in
> my first email). X264 builds just fine and I get a little .deb package as a
> result. Shuld I do anything with this package perhaps?
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:11 AM, medi <mtirgar+exotic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems ffmpeg cannot find libx264, one way to get sure that libx264
>> is installed is to use the following command :
>> "whereis libx264.so"
>> the result should be something like:
>> libx264: /usr/lib/libx264.so
>>
>> To install x264, you can do it like this:
>> sudo apt-get install x264 libx264-dev
>>
>> you can also build libx264 from source, then it may install library
>> files in '/usr/local/lib' instead, you should check /etc/ld.so.conf
>> and add '/usr/local/lib
>> ' if it is not already there, then you should run 'sudo ldconfig' to
>> refresh library paths.
>>
>> I'm using a different Linux distribution, but I guess the above
>> procedure should work on Ubuntu. I hope it goes well. I'm eager to
>> know the result.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Andreas Grehn <andreas.grehn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I've followed the guide for installing ffmpeg on Ubuntu 11.10 located
>> here:
>> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095
>> >
>> > When I get to this part all hell breaks loose.
>> > -----------------------
>> > root at kameraserver:~/ffmpeg# ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac
>> > --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb
>> > --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree
>> > --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
>> > ERROR: libx264 not found
>> > If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
>> > version from Git.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
>> > ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
>> > Include the log file "config.log" produced by configure as this will help
>> > solving the problem.
>> > -----------------------
>> >
>> > As instructed the complete config.log is available here
>> > http://pastebin.com/L3jEM3wZ.
>> >
>> > x264 seems to be installed, I guess, I have no experience of checkinstall
>> > but I can't see any errors.
>> > The result of checkinstall is at this location
>> http://pastebin.com/mCiZHQ8f.
>> >
>> >
>> > With some reading of the configure.log for ffmpeg I tried to put x264.h
>> in
>> > /usr/include. That resulted in config.log ending with a request to find
>> > x264_config.h, I promptly copied that aswell and now it ends with the
>> > following error.
>> > -----------------------
>> > check_lib x264.h x264_encoder_encode -lx264
>> > check_header x264.h
>> > check_cpp
>> > BEGIN /tmp/ffconf.4KTJhgCU.c
>> >    1 #include <x264.h>
>> >    2 int x;
>> > END /tmp/ffconf.4KTJhgCU.c
>> > gcc -D_ISOC99_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
>> > -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -std=c99
>> -fomit-frame-pointer
>> > -pthread -E -o /tmp/ffconf.l7QVcEji.o /tmp/ffconf.4KTJhgCU.c
>> > In file included from /tmp/ffconf.4KTJhgCU.c:1:0:
>> > /usr/include/x264.h:36:4: warning: #warning You must include stdint.h or
>> > inttypes.h before x264.h [-Wcpp]
>> > check_func x264_encoder_encode -lx264
>> > check_ld cc -lx264
>> > check_cc
>> > BEGIN /tmp/ffconf.4KTJhgCU.c
>> >    1 extern int x264_encoder_encode();
>> >    2 int main(void){ x264_encoder_encode(); }
>> > END /tmp/ffconf.4KTJhgCU.c
>> > gcc -D_ISOC99_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
>> > -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -std=c99
>> -fomit-frame-pointer
>> > -pthread -c -o /tmp/ffconf.l7QVcEji.o /tmp/ffconf.4KTJhgCU.c
>> > gcc -Wl,--as-needed -o /tmp/ffconf.QuRwmCOy /tmp/ffconf.l7QVcEji.o -lx264
>> > -lvorbisenc -lvorbis -logg -ltheoraenc -ltheoradec -logg -lopencore-amrwb
>> > -lopencore-amrnb -lmp3lame -lfaac -lm -pthread -lz
>> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lx264
>> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> > ERROR: libx264 not found
>> > -----------------------
>> >
>> > The warning about stdint.h I have absolutely no clue as to how to solve,
>> > hence this message.
>> >
>> > I have some Linux knowledge and I have some c/c++ experience but this is
>> > way out of my comfort zone.
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