Configure error macport - mkvToolnix

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 28, 2008, at 00:51, Mine wrote:

> On 27 Sep 2008, at 05:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Sep 26, 2008, at 20:54, Mine wrote:
>>
>>> I have uninstalled everything and started again. Installing  
>>> mpeg4ip and mkvtoolnix
>>> first, followed by ffmpeg, a52, faac, faad, lame, x264 and xvid.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if this is the right place for this next question,  
>>> but hopefully you or
>>> someone else may have encountered this next problem.
>>>
>>> I have been able to extract a video track from and .mkv file, but  
>>> when I try to convert
>>> the audio to aac using the following:
>>>
>>> ffmpeg -i file.mkv -vn -acodec aac -ac 2 audio.aac
>>>
>>>  I get  'unknown encoder aac'
>>>
>>> It seems to start alright with the following:
>>> FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard,  
>>> et al.
>>>   configuration: --prefix=/opt/local --disable-vhook --mandir=/ 
>>> opt/local/share/man --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --disable- 
>>> mmx --cc=gcc-4.0 --enable-gpl --enable-liba52
>>>   libavutil version: 49.7.0
>>>   libavcodec version: 51.60.0
>>>   libavformat version: 52.18.0
>>>   libavdevice version: 52.0.0
>>>   built on Sep 27 2008 00:52:03, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc.  
>>> build 5370)
>>>
>>> followed by many lines of this:
>>> [matroska @ 0x1802800]Ignoring seekhead entry for ID=0x1549a966
>>> [matroska @ 0x1802800]Ignoring seekhead entry for ID=0x1654ae6b
>>> [matroska @ 0x1802800]Ignoring seekhead entry for ID=0x114d9b74
>>>
>>> and ends with:
>>> Input #0, matroska, from '/Users/TWcomputer/vid_convert/Thomson/ 
>>> Thomson_WMV-HD_720p.mkv':
>>>   Duration: 00:04:39.56, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
>>>     Stream #0.0: Attachment: 0x0000
>>>     Stream #0.1: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR  
>>> 16:9], 30.00 tb(r)
>>>     Stream #0.2: Audio: vorbis, 44100 Hz, stereo
>>> Unknown encoder 'aac'
>>>
>>> I am not sure if ffmpeg has its own encoder or if it should try  
>>> to use faac. Can anyone suggest how to
>>> solve this one.
>>
>> According to "port info ffmpeg" and "port variants ffmpeg", ffmpeg  
>> can use faac to encode aac audio and faad to decode aac audio. Did  
>> you install ffmpeg with the faac and faad variants? I'm thinking  
>> you didn't, because ffmpeg showed you its configuration line  
>> above, and it doesn't include the options "--enable-libfaac" and  
>> "--enable-libfaad" which should appear if you had used those  
>> variants.
>
> After sending my email, I did some more searching and found a  
> reference
> to  "--enable-libfaac" and "--enable-libfaad".  If I was installing  
> from Terminal
> without macPorts I believe the following should work:
> ./configure --enable-libfaac" and "--enable-libfaad
>  but I don't know how to set this option in macPorts.

If you take a look at the Portfile ("port cat ffmpeg") you'll see  
that using the +faac variant adds the --enable-libfaac configure  
option, and using the +faad variant adds the --enable-libfaad  
configure option.

> I have now reinstalled ffmpeg using the following,
> sudo port install ffmpeg +a52 +faac +faad +gpl +lame +libogg  
> +postproc +theora +vorbis +x264 +xvid

So that should have been all you needed to do.

> but I got an error 'unknown encoder aac' so it appears that I sill  
> have to enable
> these options. Could you tell me how to enable these options in  
> macPorts.

Beyond using the available variants, I can't help. I don't use ffmpeg  
myself. You might want to contact the maintainer of the ffmpeg port,  
or the authors of the ffmpeg software.

> I also downloaded and installed ffmpeg-export-2008-09-26, faac, and  
> faad outside
> from the terminal without macPorts, to see if I could enable  
> options. So I now have
> two versions of these apps. Is there a simple way to delete the non- 
> macports version.
> Or can I get a list of where these apps install there files and  
> delete them manually.

Usually that would be specified by the configure option --prefix=/ 
wherever. If you did not supply the --prefix flag to configure, then  
usually they go in /usr/local. It's a bad idea to have things in /usr/ 
local while also trying to use MacPorts, so you should remove what's  
in /usr/local.