I have a problem with assembling working environment with all packages
required to encode/decode/convert MPEG-4 and H.264 media files in Fedora
17 x86_64.

I'd like to convert some video files to mpeg-4 format easily but I'm
unable to do it. I'm unable to find any comprehensive info about
packages that need to be installed in Fedora 17 in order to work with
aforementioned files. So I ended up mixing some advice form several
blogs etc. I can watch mp4 videos but not create them from other media
files.


My questions are:

1) What packages are to be installed to fully support MPGE-4 as
destination media format?

2) Is there a package with WinFF, the GUI form ffmpeg
(http://winff.org/html_new/) in Fedora 17? Yumming doesn't seem to
provide and faint trail of such a packaged.

3) How can I find extensive info about Fedora packages where I can read
detail about them and search for appropriate one by myself (something
like http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages because
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ doesn't work for me, I hardly can
find anything useful there.)



Thanks in advance for any help,
Mateusz Marzantowicz
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On 06/26/2012 05:55 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> I have a problem with assembling working environment with all packages
> required to encode/decode/convert MPEG-4 and H.264 media files in Fedora
> 17 x86_64.
>
> I'd like to convert some video files to mpeg-4 format easily but I'm
> unable to do it. I'm unable to find any comprehensive info about
> packages that need to be installed in Fedora 17 in order to work with
> aforementioned files. So I ended up mixing some advice form several
> blogs etc. I can watch mp4 videos but not create them from other media
> files.

You've not indicated if you any 3rd party repos defined. I suspect not....

If you don't have 3rd party repos, that explains the "problem". The standard Fedora
repos don't contain software that is patent encumbered.....like mpeg and mp3.

You should visit http://rpmfusion.org/ and configure the free and non-free repos.

I am sure others can point you to the software to do what you ask. I happen to be on
f16 and use HandBrake for all my conversion needed. But, there are plenty of others.

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On 26.06.2012 12:09, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/26/2012 05:55 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>> I have a problem with assembling working environment with all packages
>> required to encode/decode/convert MPEG-4 and H.264 media files in Fedora
>> 17 x86_64.
>>
>> I'd like to convert some video files to mpeg-4 format easily but I'm
>> unable to do it. I'm unable to find any comprehensive info about
>> packages that need to be installed in Fedora 17 in order to work with
>> aforementioned files. So I ended up mixing some advice form several
>> blogs etc. I can watch mp4 videos but not create them from other media
>> files.
> You've not indicated if you any 3rd party repos defined. I suspect not....
>
> If you don't have 3rd party repos, that explains the "problem". The standard Fedora
> repos don't contain software that is patent encumbered.....like mpeg and mp3.
>
> You should visit http://rpmfusion.org/ and configure the free and non-free repos.
>
> I am sure others can point you to the software to do what you ask. I happen to be on
> f16 and use HandBrake for all my conversion needed. But, there are plenty of others.
>

Thanks, I have rpmfusion configured and I've already used it to install
some of devil patented packages. But I don't think that there is a
patent issue with WinFF and I can't find the package for it.


Mateusz Marzantowicz
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On 06/26/2012 06:18 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> Thanks, I have rpmfusion configured and I've already used it to install
> some of devil patented packages. But I don't think that there is a
> patent issue with WinFF and I can't find the package for it.

There isn't a WinFF package in the fedora or rpmfusion repositories. If you want to
use that, just download it from their site and "yum localinstall winff-1.4.0-3.i386.rpm"

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