I'm having trouble with the current release of ffmpeg, it transcodes .mp3 to .wavs in a format that is unsupported by my client.
How can install this version?
ffmpeg version 0.7.3-4:0.7.3-0ubuntu0.11.10.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers
built on Jan 4 2012 16:08:51 with gcc 4.6.1
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The problem I am trying to resolve is transcoding an .mp3 to .wav. Our client has an identification service that determines a song from the .wav. When I pass the .wav that ffmpeg has generated
exec ("ffmpeg -ss $start -t $duration -i $shellArgSongPath -f wav -ar 44100 somefile.wav");
I receive an "Audio format not supported"
My guess is that the default codec used to transcode from .mp3 to .wav has changed. Would anyone happen to know what that was in the previous version?
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(Reading database ... 31284 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ffmpeg 4:0.7.3-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 (using ffmpeg_0.7.3-0ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ffmpeg ...
Replaced by files in installed package libav-tools ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ffmpeg:
ffmpeg depends on libavcodec53 (<< 4:0.7.3-99) | libavcodec-extra-53 (<< 4:0.7.3.99); however:
Version of libavcodec53 on system is 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1.
Package libavcodec-extra-53 is not installed.
ffmpeg depends on libavdevice53 (<< 4:0.7.3-99) | libavdevice-extra-53 (<< 4:0.7.3.99); however:
Version of libavdevice53 on system is 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1.
Package libavdevice-extra-53 is not installed.
ffmpeg depends on libavfilter2 (<< 4:0.7.3-99) | libavfilter-extra-2 (<< 4:0.7.3.99); however:
Version of libavfilter2 on system is 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1.
Package libavfilter-extra-2 is not installed.
ffmpeg depends on libavformat53 (<< 4:0.7.3-99) | libavformat-extra-53 (<< 4:0.7.3.99); however:
Version of libavformat53 on system is 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1.
Package libavformat-extra-53 is not installed.
ffmpeg depends on libavutil51 (<< 4:0.7.3-99) | libavutil-extra-51 (<< 4:0.7.3.99); however:
Version of libavutil51 on system is 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1.
Package libavutil-extra-51 is not installed.
ffmpeg depends on libpostproc52 (<< 4:0.7.3-99) | libpostproc-extra-52 (<< 4:0.7.3.99); however:
Version of libpostproc52 on system is 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1.
Package libpostproc-extra-52 is not installed.
ffmpeg depends on libswscale2 (<< 4:0.7.3-99) | libswscale-extra-2 (<< 4:0.7.3.99); however:
Version of libswscale2 on system is 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1.
Package libswscale-extra-2 is not installed.
libav-tools (4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1) breaks ffmpeg (<< 4:0.8~) and is installed.
Version of ffmpeg to be configured is 4:0.7.3-0ubuntu0.11.10.1.
dpkg: error processing ffmpeg (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
ffmpeg
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Output when I run ffmpeg
command from the server that produces the well-formed .wav
ffmpeg version 0.7.3-4:0.7.3-0ubuntu0.11.10.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers
built on Jan 4 2012 16:08:51 with gcc 4.6.1
configuration: --extra-version='4:0.7.3-0ubuntu0.11.10.1' --arch=amd64 --prefix=/usr --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --enable-libvpx --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-vaapi --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 51. 7. 0 / 51. 7. 0
libavcodec 53. 6. 0 / 53. 6. 0
libavformat 53. 3. 0 / 53. 3. 0
libavdevice 53. 0. 0 / 53. 0. 0
libavfilter 2. 4. 0 / 2. 4. 0
libswscale 2. 0. 0 / 2. 0. 0
libpostproc 52. 0. 0 / 52. 0. 0
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...
Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
Output from when I run ffmpeg
command from server that produces ill-formed .wav
ffmpeg version 0.8.1-4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers
built on Mar 22 2012 05:09:06 with gcc 4.6.3
This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility. Use avconv instead (see Changelog for the list of incompatible changes).
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...
Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
ffmpeg
. Here is an example of what I mean. FFmpeg will output a bunch of information that may be useful in figuring out what the issue is. Do this for both the working and non-working commands if possible.avconv -i 6.mp3 test.wav
? If not then I'll assume there is a bug or regression in libav-tools, and I'd recommend compiling ffmpeg from FFmpeg and I can provide those instructions in an answer.