Winnff give unkniwn encoder libvo aacenc on yakkety

[Dan Attwood]

After the upgrade to yakkety yak winff gives unknown encoder libvo aacenc when trying to convert videos

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: winff 1.5.3-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Mon Aug 29 08:46:17 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-10 (506 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Beta amd64 (20150326)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: winff
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-08-28 (0 days ago)

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Do you have libavcodec-extra installed as suggested by the package?

The description of winff says:
For most presets to work, it is necessary to have the unstripped version of the libavcodec package, which can be obtained by installing libavcodec-extra as suggested by this package. It might be necessary to enable additional repositories to find that package.

[Dan Attwood (danattwood-m)]

I've just checked and yes I do have libavcodec-extra installed

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Interestingly here¹ you can see that all the presets shipped with Winff should actually work. Which preset are you using?

Can you please copy/paste the complete terminal output that ffmpeg creates in a failure that you experience?

¹ https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-yakkety/yakkety/amd64/w/winff/20160823_184355@/log.gz

[Dan Attwood (danattwood-m)]

I've just tried with some different media and it's still not working.
However i also tried with a fresh install of ubuntu mate into a vmware machine and that is working fine - so very odd.

Settings:

non working:

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i "/home/dan/Desktop/mymkv.mkv" -f mp4 -r 29.97 -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -filter:v scale=704:384 -b:v 1000k -aspect 16:9 -flags +loop -cmp chroma -b:v 1250k -maxrate 1500k -bufsize 4M -bt 256k -refs 1 -bf 3 -coder 1 -me_method umh -me_range 16 -subq 7 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp8x8+partb8x8 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -level 30 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qcomp 0.6 -trellis 2 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -acodec libvo_aacenc -b:a 112k -ar 48000 -ac 2 "/home/dan/mymp4.mp4"

working:

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i "/home/dan/Desktop/zoo.209.hdtv-lol.mkv" -f mp4 -r 29.97 -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -filter:v scale=w=704:h=384 -b:v 1000k -aspect 16:9 -flags +loop -cmp chroma -b:v 1250k -maxrate 1500k -bufsize 4M -bt 256k -refs 1 -bf 3 -coder 1 -me_method umh -me_range 16 -subq 7 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp8x8+partb8x8 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -level 30 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qcomp 0.6 -trellis 2 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -acodec aac -strict experimental -b:a 112k -ar 48000 -ac 2 "/home/dan/zoo.209.hdtv-lol.mp4"

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

In Winff version 1.3.5-6 we replaced libvo_aacenc by aac. What happens if you hit the "Restore defaults" menu item the "Edit" tab?

[Dan Attwood (danattwood-m)]

sweet - restore defaults did the trick. It's happily munching trough some files now.

Thank you for your help with this and a brilliantly powerfuly and simple piece of software

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

As per last comment by the reporter, this bug is not something that needs fixing in the package.