ffmpeg/mencoder help on Suse 10.3 64bit

[russellhq]

I'm running an Intel Q6600 on OpenSuse 10.3 64bit edition and have trouble getting ffmpeg to work.

I installed ffmpeg from source and when I try to do any conversion it spits out an error before it starts converting which looks something like "mencoder2 not found"

Now I have mplayer and mencoder installed and working so I don't know why I am getting this error.

I had to install ffmpeg from source as I did not have it in my repositories. What is a good repository to add to the collection that would have this kind of stuff? It seems the suse ones don't carry it.

Also, I've tried using mencoder to do some encoding and have problems with it using only one core. I've tried using the command "-threads" with various numbers of threads from 2-8 but on the system monitor only one cpu shows at 100% with the other 3 bouncing around 0-5% Any ideas?

[microchip8]

you can install ffmpeg from the Packman repository, add this link to your package manager -

http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.3

not sure about threading, but the x264 part of mencoder works fine on multicore systems with the threads=auto option

[foxyshadis]

Do you have pthreads installed? mencoder needs to be compiled with that to use threads.