Comment 1 for bug 276519

Adrian Fita <email address hidden> writes:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: transcode
>
> When I try to encode a DVD with DVD:RIP by choosing ffmpeg/h264 in
> transcode I receive the following error:
>
> I don't know if it's ffmpeg's ar transcode's fault, but ffmepg says that
> it has h264:
>
> ffmpeg -formats | grep 264
> FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
> configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
> libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
> libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
> libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
> built on Sep 26 2008 12:56:27, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu1)
> DE h264 raw H264 video format
> D V DT h264

FFmpeg does only have an h264 decoder, not an encoder. Encoding to h264
is only possible using x264 AFAIUI

transcode btw correctly notices that:

> [export_ffmpeg.so] v0.3.13 (2004-08-03) (video) Lavc1d.51.38.0 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM
> [export_ffmpeg.so] Could not find a FFMPEG codec for 'h264'.
> [transcode] warning : (encoder.c) video export module error: init failed
> ms [ 0 (A) | -31 ms ]

Nothing to fix here, as far as I see.

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