Yet another blog for JBKempf - Tag - debian

Build vlc under a fresh sid

JBK — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:39:00 +0200

Introduction

So we are going to build the latest VLC possible.

I already did it for ubuntu feisty and it had a huge success. I am going to do the same for debian/sid, which is the distro I use in normal time.

However, some steps did changed, and I compile more options here, because I can :D

Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should be straight-forward. Every question should be asked on the forum, or in the comments here.

Conventions

Every line beginning with a # should be done as root, or using the sudo command. Every line beginning witha % is a normal line.

Building VLC

Prepare your environment

# apt-get build-dep vlc
# apt-get install build-essential subversion tofrodos
# apt-get install portaudio-dev

Checkout it

% svn co svn://jb@svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc-trunk
% cd vlc-trunk;

Bootstrap it

% ./bootstrap

It has to finish with: Successfully bootstrapped

Build external libraries

x264

x264 is a library to encode movies in H.264.

% cd extras/
%
% svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
% cd x264
% make
% cd ..

faac

faac is a library to encode audio in AAC/MP4A

% wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/faac/faac-1.25.tar.gz
% tar xvf faac-1.25.tar.gz
% cd faac
% dos2unix *
% ./bootstrap
% ./configure
% make
# make install
% cd..

Lame

Lame is a library to encode MP3

% wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
% tar xvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
% cd lame-3.97
% ./configure;
% make
# make install
% cd..

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a multi-codec library

% svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
% cd ffmpeg
% ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp \ 
               --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame  \ 
               --enable-libfaac
% make
% cd ../..

live

Live is a streaming library. you'll need it to read some streams.

% wget http://live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz
% tar xvf live555-latest.tar.gz
% cd live555
% ./genMakefiles linux
% make
% cd..

VLC

configure

% mkdir linux;
% cd linux
% ../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-snapshot \
--enable-debug --enable-dbus-control \
--enable-musicbrainz --enable-shared \
--enable-mozilla --enable-lirc \
--with-x509-ca-bundle=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt \
--with-live555-tree=../extras/live \
--with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg \
--enable-shout --enable-taglib --enable-v4l \
--enable-cddax --enable-dvb --enable-vcdx \
--enable-realrtsp --enable-svg --enable-dvdread \
--enable-dv --enable-theora --enable-faad \
--enable-twolame --enable-real --enable-flac \
--enable-tremor --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame \
--with-ffmpeg-faac --enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 \
--enable-ncurses --enable-aa --enable-caca \
--enable-esd --enable-portaudio --enable-jack \
--enable-xosd --enable-galaktos --enable-goom \
--enable-ggi --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx \
--disable-dirac --enable-x264 \
--with-x264-tree=../extras/x264 \
--disable-xvmc --enable-wxwidgets \
--enable-lua --enable-pvr --enable-loader \
--enable-python-bindings --enable-audioscrobbler \
--enable-libcddb --enable-libcdio --enable-opencv  \
--enable-nls

build it

% make

Bored with Debian - x264 patents

JBK — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:42:00 +0200

Debian has removed the x264 package from debian...

I am usually a strong supporter of debian, but I may change very quickly my mind...

x264

x264 was removed from debian unstable according to : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423250

With the very best explanation ever: Now - it contains mpeg4 stuff, try googling for "mpeg4 patent" once and you know why it needs to go out.

And with the very usefull link of http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/pr18.html. That states: the patents that will constitute the MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License support the charging of royalties on the use of MPEG-4 Visual streams in Europe" and that a license should be available within several months.

"Should" be ? I am not an englishman, but should does not mean is. Moreover the article is from 2002 and legislation about patents has changed in Europe since that date!

Patents

Video

Video programming is filled with patents.

This so stupid than ever... Hey, Joerg Jaspert, why don't you try "mpeg2 patent" in Google ? Oops, right ?

Then you should remove:

ffmpeg, libmpeg2,
mplayer, vlc, xine, ogle, totem, gstreamer,
cinelerra, avidemux...

Come on!

Other patents

What about "double-click patents" and "linux patents" in google ? It gives more answers than MPEG-4 patents... Maybe we should remove 'linux' from debian...

Migration time - Ubuntu-debian

JBK — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:43:00 +0200

This is just a post to tell the results of debian and ubuntu machines migrations.

Debian's update are not so perfect, and Ubuntu's update are worse.

Debian and Ubuntu migrations

Spring has begun a few weeks ago and the big migration time started during april.

GNU/Linux Debian etch 4.0 was out early April and Ubuntu (GNU/Linux too, even if they don't admit it :D) too with feisty 7.04 version.

I had to migrate a few machines. I am not what you can call a n00b about linux ( and debian ) administration...

Ubuntu

I had four machines to migrate (mostly my family's computers). Three were running edgy (6.10), and the last one was still running dapper (6.06).

Edgy

Well, I tried to migrate those with the GUI thing. One achieved it. The two other failed to launch. So I migrate those with the terminal ( that was the most natural thing to do for me... ).

Results Well, the one I migrated with the GUI just rebooted did not have any wifi. A bit of /etc/network/interfaces tweaking did the trick.

The other one did not had any X. ATI drivers failure or something... It took a bit longer to make it work... But definitively, my sister wouldn't have been able to do it.

The final one did not want to boot at all... grub tweaking, updates and kernel modules updates but finally it went correctly. Not so difficult after all.

Dapper

Come on! That was a complete failure. I know I shouldn't update from dapper to feisty but still... Complete failure

Debian

Sarge

I had three different machines to migrate.

Nothing important to notice on the servers (mainly except postfix and nut).

The desktop one was a bit trickier, especially, X.org configuration and GNOME setup. Grub was fun, as usual... But well, not so difficult.