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### ffmpeg and libmp3lame issue in debain

J. Bakshi [j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org]

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:52:38 +0530

Hello list,

I have upgraded my box to debian squeeze. And discover ffmpeg stops converting to .mp3 . I have libmp3lame installed ; more over it was running well before up-gradation. After doing some google serach I have found that libmp3lame support has been disabled in official debian package. Then I have found multimedia.debia.org repo where the ffmpeg is distributed with less strict license policy. but again vlc now broken after adding that repo in my sources.lst and updating due to library collision.

Is there any repo which provides the ffmpeg with mp3 support and still maintain the official debian naming scheme ? then I can use both vlc as well as ffmpeg.

Thanks

Kindly cc to me

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Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:08:51 +0530

Hello,

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009, J. Bakshi wrote:

    > I have upgraded my box to debian squeeze. And discover ffmpeg stops
    > converting to .mp3 . I have libmp3lame installed ; more over it was
    > running well before up-gradation. After doing some google serach I
    > have found that libmp3lame support has been disabled in official
    > debian package. Then I have found multimedia.debia.org repo where
    > the ffmpeg is distributed with less strict license policy. but again
    > vlc now broken after adding that repo in my sources.lst and updating
    > due to library collision.

Please read about "apt pinning" so as to avoid using the vlc from the alternate repository.

Secondly, you need not "google" to find out that libmp3lame support has been disabled. That information is in the NEWS.Debian file that is distributed with the new package (and is automatically displayed if you install apt-list-changes).

Regards,

Kapil. --

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J. Bakshi [j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org]

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:24:09 +0530

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:08:51 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> wrote:

    > Hello,
    >
    > On Sun, 05 Jul 2009, J. Bakshi wrote:
    > > I have upgraded my box to debian squeeze. And discover ffmpeg stops
    > > converting to .mp3 . I have libmp3lame installed ; more over it was
    > > running well before up-gradation. After doing some google serach I
    > > have found that libmp3lame support has been disabled in official
    > > debian package. Then I have found multimedia.debia.org repo where
    > > the ffmpeg is distributed with less strict license policy. but again
    > > vlc now broken after adding that repo in my sources.lst and updating
    > > due to library collision.
    >
    > Please read about "apt pinning" so as to avoid using the vlc from
    > the alternate repository.
    >
    > Secondly, you need not "google" to find out that libmp3lame support
    > has been disabled. That information is in the NEWS.Debian file that
    > is distributed with the new package (and is automatically displayed
    > if you install apt-list-changes).
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Kapil.
    > --
    >

Thanks a lot for all these hints.

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