On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Markus Heuser <mheuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Today i wanted to rip one of my dvds with h264enc from AUR [1]. I updated to > the latest available version (8.6.6) but couldn't get it working together with > the mencoder from the repos. > > I'm not asking for support for an AUR package, but here is what I found out > and I guess this could be important for other ripping/x264 encoding software > as well: > > The extra/x264 is severely outdated, in fact it lacks support for some > -x264encopts that can be used by mencoder and therefore breaks encoding. This > seems not to be very common by now but sooner or later encoding tools will use > these options and we should provide compatible packages :) > > So, if one rebuilds x264 either with the $pkgver bumped to the latest > available snapshot [2] or uses the AUR x264-git Package [3], MPlayer needs a > rebuild too. > > Using the official MPlayer PKGBUILD results in a build error with a possible > solution posted on the forums [4]. I know that the OP is using an SVN version > of mplayer but I couldn't get the new x264 working together with the mplayer > PKGBUILD from the repos (another build error complaining about libavcodec), so > upgrading to the latest & greatest (tm) version seems to be the next logical > step to me. > > I see that this "solution" involves using ffmpeg and mplayer svn versions which > is obviously not suitable for the repos. But I'd be very thankful to see a > rebuild of x264 and mplayer/ffmpeg as soon as the changes in ffmpeg and mplayer > are in the stable branches and you guys can afford the time to do so :) > > Greetings, > Markus > > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12121 > [2] ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264- > snapshot-20081228-2245.tar.bz2 > [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15774 > [4] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61858 > Have you tried mplayer-svn? Mplayer will probably not have a stable release ever anyway. Greg
