VP8 encoding support is missing or poorly documented about mpv-build

[divVerent]

Hi,

you need to compile ffmpeg against libvpx for this to work.

Best regards,

Rudolf Polzer

On Di.,  2. Jul. 2013 16:31:48 CEST, username-already-taken [email protected] wrote:

Despite having the libvpx-dev package (version 1.2) installed in my
Debian system, I cannot build mpv with libvpx encoding support. I cannot
find within the downloaded Git source, the instructions for building
support for mpv --ovc=libvpx:

        $ mpv --ovc=help | grep -E 'libx264|libvpx'
        --ovc=libx264          libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
        --ovc=libx264rgb    libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
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It would be odd if VP8 encoding isn't supported since it's explicitly
listed in the example profile included in the source:

        $ grep libvpx mpv/etc/encoding-example-profiles.conf
        profile-desc = "VP8 (libvpx)"
        ovc = libvpx

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[email-and-password-forgotten]

Okay, thanks for the hint. I'm now running mpv with VP8 support built in. If it isn't too much pain, would it be possible to add an "--enable-libvpx" line to scripts/ffmpeg-config, commented out of course, just like the option to enable x264 encoding support?

#OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --enable-libx264"
+#OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --enable-libvpx"

The necessary headers would have to be manually installed rather than autodetected. But isn't this the same already for the option to enable x264 support?

Made an attempt to improve it, see 8e59c91.

I think we can consider this fixed; at least everyone should be able to infer from the README that encoding might need some additional libs, and that this affects vp8, just like it affects h264.