Ffmpeg: Unknown decoder 'xvid'

Question

Hi Everyone,
If I try to encode a video File with the ffmpeg-20071204-1 package i get the following error:
FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --disable-libamr-nb --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-swscaler
libavutil version: 49.5.0
libavcodec version: 51.48.0
libavformat version: 52.1.0
built on Dec 4 2007 21:40:55, gcc: 4.2.2
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 1000.00 (1000/1) -> 29.92 (359/12)
Input #0, flv, from 'test.flv':
Duration: 01:56:23.6, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 64 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 320x240 [PAR 0:1 DAR 0:1], 29.92 tb(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s
Must supply at least one output file
FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --disable-libamr-nb --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-swscaler
libavutil version: 49.5.0
libavcodec version: 51.48.0
libavformat version: 52.1.0
built on Dec 4 2007 21:40:55, gcc: 4.2.2
Unknown decoder 'xvid'
With an old package i.e. ffmpeg-20070505-3 i don't get this error.
Do you know how to fix this problem??

Answer 1

I can confirm the error with the ffmpeg 20071204-1 package on x86_64.  I can add that the man pages are missing, despite being in the File List for the package and also this, which I never noticed before:
[david@darkstar ffmpeg]$ ffmpeg -formats
FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --disable-libamr-nb --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-swscaler
libavutil version: 49.5.0
libavcodec version: 51.48.0
libavformat version: 52.1.0
built on Jan 26 2008 20:51:54, gcc: 4.2.2
File formats:
Codecs:
Supported file protocols:
Frame size, frame rate abbreviations:
ntsc pal qntsc qpal sntsc spal film ntsc-film sqcif qcif cif 4cif
Note, the names of encoders and decoders do not always match, so there are
several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries
even though both encoding and decoding are supported. For example, the h263
decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders, for file formats it is even
worse.
Looks as though a bug report or two is in order?
Last edited by azleifel (2008-01-26 21:03:50)