How to install the transcoding tools on

Debian 6 "Squeeze"?
Editions: Community, Professional, Enterprise, Enterprise Ultimate, Corporate
Versions: all
For using open source transcoding with ViMP you have to install the neccessary transcoding
tools (MPlayer, mencoder, flvtool2 etc.)

Edit sources for "apt"

Debian and Ubuntu use the packet-manager "apt" to install software. We first have to add the
needed sources (repositories):
(we recommend using "joe" to edit the file)
touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-multimedia.org.list
joe /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-multimedia.org.list

We add the following lines to the file debian-multimedia.org.list:

# Debian Multimedia Repository
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

Then save the file (with joe type ctrl-k->ctrl-x)

and install the keyring for the just added repositories (if aksed, enter "Y"):
apt-get update
apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring

Then we update the cache changes in our working directory:

apt-get update
cd /usr/src

Next we install the Win codecs

ATTENTION: On 32-bit systems we install like this:
apt-get install w32codecs

ATTENTION: On 64-bit systems we install the codecs like that:

apt-get install w64codecs

Now we have to install the tools:

apt-get install mplayer mencoder ffmpeg flvtool2

At last copy the ffmpeg-presets to /usr/share/ffmpeg

You can download the presets here