Bug#607593: ffmpeg: encoding ogg fails:[libtheora @ 0x2567a80]theora_encode_init failed. Use debian-multimedia.org fine.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Héctor,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:05:31AM +0000, Hector Oron wrote:
>Severity: important

FFmpeg supports a wide range of codecs.  Please elaborate on why you 
believe this particular combination is "important" for Debian generally.


>  On a pure Debian/unstable system, I attempt to convert *.flv to
>*.ogg and it fails in many ways (I tried many options during the day).

The FFmpeg in unstable has been frozen since around july.

For latest and greatest FFmpeg, try install from experimental.


>  After installing packages from debian-multimedia.org, everything
>works fine at the first time.

Interesting.  Similar to it being interesting if it worked better with 
manually compiled FFmpeg or Fedora.  Nothing else than that.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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