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Winff 0.45.l.h-backto043 convert ogg to MP4 gives „unrecognised option -me“

Asked by stoppage on 2009-10-25

On WinFF converting .ogg file to MP4 with command line is o.k. When I use WinFF it returns „unrecognised option -me“. Am I using old presets? Have Ubuntu 8.04 and latest FFmpeg version SVN-r20182, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
built on Oct 6 2009 21:34:02 with gcc 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu winff Edit question

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Solved by:: Paul Gevers

Solved:: 2009-10-27

Last query:: 2009-10-27

Last reply:: 2009-10-25

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Paul Gevers (paul-climbing) said on 2009-10-25:

Two possible asnwers:

1) You are using old presets (i.e. for ffmpeg which created a libavcodec51 instead of the current libavcodec52) It is described in /usr/share/doc/winff/README.Debian: If you use an unofficial version of ffmpeg you might want the extended set of presets. For you convenience other versions of the presets are provided in /usr/share/winff/ and should replace or be merged with your
~/.winff/presets.xml (and /usr/share/winff/presets.xml for system wide update). Unfortunately the API of ffmpeg changes once in a while, so you will have to check which version of libavcodec you have. The other presets files are named after the supported libavcodec.

2) Do you also have the Ubuntu ffmpeg installed? It seems that you compiled ffmpeg yourself. That is usually NOT placed in the /usr/bin/ffmpeg location, but somewhere else. Find where it is located and then in WinFF the menu Edit -> Preferences -> Linux and fill the location of your preferred ffmpeg into the field: "Path to the ffmpeg executable".

Please let me know whether this answers your question.

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