How to install libtheora for MacOSX (ffmpeg)

Question

My ffmpeg version is missing 'libtheora' codec and I downloaded this version of 'libtheora' to make it work. http://www.theora.org/downloads/ The problem is that after extracting the zip file, I dont know how to install it. The README file does not give a lot of details. Do I just run make? Anyone that did this before?

Answer 1

Have you tried Macports (http://www.macports.org/) to install ffmped or libtheora? If you don't have it ...download an install it. then go into your console and execute this:

sudo port install libtheora

Answer 2

It is very simple with Homebrew:

brew install ffmpeg2theora

But actually it does not allow you to convert to OGG/OGV format after this. What actually helped me to convert MP4 to OGV format in the end was compiling ffmpeg with libtheora support. Detailed explanation could be found here ffmpeg Mac OSX compilation guide. And after this I finally was able to run the following command:

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -codec:v libtheora -qscale:v 7 -codec:a libvorbis -qscale:a 5 output.ogv

Answer 3

You can install libtheora for ffmpeg with brew

brew install theora

To use it in ffmpeg you should recompile ffmpeg. Source of solution: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/MacOSX

brew install automake fdk-aac git lame libass libtool libvorbis libvpx opus sdl shtool texi2html theora wget x264 xvid yasm

git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure  --prefix=/usr/local --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
make && sudo make install

as for me it works like magic.

Answer 4

after reading a long mailinglist and getting sad because people are rude i finally solved this problem for me. it seems to be necessary to specify the lib paths with --extra-ldflags and --extra-cflags. so in my case it looked like this:

./configure  --prefix=/usr/local --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree \
--enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype \
--enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \
--enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
--extra-ldflags="-L/usr/local/Cellar/lame/3.99.5/lib \
-L/usr/local/Cellar/libogg/1.3.2/lib \
-L/usr/local/Cellar/theora/1.1.1/lib \
-L/usr/local/Cellar/libvorbis/1.3.5/lib \
-L/usr/local/Cellar/xvid/1.3.4/lib" \
--extra-cflags="-I/usr/local/Cellar/lame/3.99.5/include \
-I/usr/local/Cellar/libogg/1.3.2/include \
-I/usr/local/Cellar/theora/1.1.1/include \
-I/usr/local/Cellar/libvorbis/1.3.5/include \
-I/usr/local/Cellar/xvid/1.3.4/include"

depending on your required libs and versions this may be different of course.