Flix Engine on Gentoo Linux

[apryan]

Just curious if anyone had gotten Flix Engine working on Gentoo Linux. I orginally ran into some problems installing the demo version.

Thanks
-anthony

[kashani]

I'm running Flix Enginer on Gentoo servers and have had no problems. You'll need to emerge portmap for the RPC stuff that Flix needs. Additionally you may have path issues since Flix puts the mencoder binary into some weird place. I usually symlink /usr/bin/mencoder to where ever that is.

I build my own Mplayer/mencoder to get some extras like AMR and better WMV3/VC1 support. Works fine with Flix as long as you add the libdemux patches On2 provides on their site. Generally On2 releases often enough that you can probably skip building mencoder yourself unless you really need the latests libavcodec changes a cvs checkout gets you.

I would highly recommend NOT upgrading to gcc 4.1.1 and glibc 2.4 or using x86_64 with Flix at this time. ffmpeg/mplayer dev mailing lists seem to be having a number of issues with gcc 4.1.1 and the binary codecs from Mplayer may have issues with x86_64.

Let me know if you run into any issues.

kashani

[apryan]

Thanks. Shortly after I posted this thread I decided to give my next idea a try. I had created a chroot gentoo 32bit environment on my 64bit operton machine in order to get some other applications to work which were not set up to allow 64bit libs. So I gave flix engine a try and to my surprise it installed perfectly. I was pretty excited to see it work nice under 32bit.

I since have started trying to nag the developers of Flix Engine to add 64bit lib support or at least add support to search for lib32 which under gentoo is in the main path. If they could do this, I would be impelled to mass replicate the use across our net wide servers.

Keep in touch as I would like to get your thoughts on what interfaces you use it with and how it performs.

Thanks !

[kashani]

I never tried the 32bit chroot figuring I was better off leaving well enough alone. However if On2 were to support it I'd probably move that way in the next six months as ffmpeg/mplayer support fo x86_64 seems to be firming up.

Feel free to complain about decoding the video for each encode instead of doing a single decode for multiple encodes. That's my biggest beef at the moment and would increase throughput far more than moving to 64bit would. :)

kashani