transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder
Added by Morten Trab over 10 years ago
I'm trying to setup TVHeadend for a XBMC and Plex backend.
XBMC is working with the IPTV strems from my provider.
When trying to get Plex working I get this in log:
transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder
And then no picture and only audio is working.
TVHeadend is running on a Debian Squeeze box.
Any tips on how to get H264 encoding working on Squeeze?
Regards,
Morten
Replies (6)
RE: transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder - Added by Prof Yaffle over 10 years ago
No personal experience, but I'm guessing you're missing the extra codecs - libavcodec-extra-53 on Ubuntu, so probably similar on Debian. Either that or x264, something like that.
RE: transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder - Added by Morten Trab over 10 years ago
libavcodec-extra-53 returns something like "no versions" (can't remember the exact phrase.
x264 is installed.
RE: transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder - Added by Prof Yaffle over 10 years ago
I really don't know Debian, but a quick Google suggests that it's in the backports repository from Wheezy to Squeeze?
RE: transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder - Added by Morten Trab over 10 years ago
Backports - why haven't I thought of that
Well, tried that - no luck.
Still have the error.
transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder
RE: transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder - Added by Prof Yaffle over 10 years ago
Ah, well, it was worth a try...
Have you got the ffmpeg/libav libraries all installed? I'm thinking of libavcodec-dev, libavutil-dev and similar.
Again, just Googling with extreme prejudice, so don't mistake me for an expert... :-)
RE: transcode: Unable to find H264 encoder - Added by Morten Trab over 10 years ago
Been foolin around today.
Haven't got it solved yet.
Build x264 from GIT but that didn't solve it either.
And now I got everything messed up, can't recompile tvheadend
checking for pkg libavcodec <=55.0.0 ... fail ERROR: libav development support not found (use --disable-libav)
Tried apt-get install libavcodec-dev but that wont install because of livavcodec-extra-53 :/ Bummer