<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">I am unable to encode using the vp9 video encoder. This is what I have done.<br><br><ol><li>I have installed the latest version of FFmpeg available on git. The configure command that I used was the following "./configure --extra-cflags=-O2 --enable-bzlib --disable-devices --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfaac --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-avfilter --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libspeex --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --enable-optimizations --disable-stripping --enable-nonfree --enable-version3 --libdir=/usr/local/lib"<br></li><li>I have additionally installed the libvorbis,
libvpx, ligogg shared binaries.</li></ol><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">However, when I run ./ffmpeg -encoders I get the following output <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Encoders:<br> V..... = Video<br> A..... = Audio<br> S..... = Subtitle<br> .F.... = Frame-level multithreading<br> ..S... = Slice-level multithreading<br> ...X.. = Codec is experimental<br> ....B. = Supports draw_horiz_band<br> .....D = Supports direct rendering method 1<br> ------<br> V..... a64multi Multicolor charset for Commodore 64 (codec a64_multi)<br> V.....
a64multi5 Multicolor charset for Commodore 64, extended with 5th color (colram) (codec a64_multi5)<br> V..... amv AMV Video<br> V..... asv1 ASUS V1<br> V..... asv2 ASUS V2<br> V..... avrp Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer<br> V..X.. avui Avid Meridien Uncompressed<br> V..... ayuv Uncompressed
packed MS 4:4:4:4<br> V..... bmp BMP (Windows and OS/2 bitmap)<br> V..... cljr Cirrus Logic AccuPak<br> V..... libschroedinger libschroedinger Dirac 2.2 (codec dirac)<br> V.S... dnxhd VC3/DNxHD<br> V..... dpx DPX image<br> V.S... dvvideo DV (Digital Video)<br> V.S... ffv1 FFmpeg video codec #1<br> V.....
ffvhuff Huffyuv FFmpeg variant<br> V..... flashsv Flash Screen Video<br> V..... flashsv2 Flash Screen Video Version 2<br> V..... flv FLV / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263 (Flash Video) (codec flv1)<br> V..... gif GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)<br> V..... h261 H.261<br> V..... h263 H.263 /
H.263-1996<br> V.S... h263p H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2<br> V..... libx264 libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (codec h264)<br> V..... libx264rgb libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 RGB (codec h264)<br> V..... huffyuv Huffyuv / HuffYUV<br> V..X.. jpeg2000 JPEG 2000<br> V..... libopenjpeg OpenJPEG JPEG 2000 (codec jpeg2000)<br> V..... jpegls JPEG-LS<br> V.....
ljpeg Lossless JPEG<br> VFS... mjpeg MJPEG (Motion JPEG)<br> V.S... mpeg1video MPEG-1 video<br> V.S... mpeg2video MPEG-2 video<br> V.S... mpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2<br> V..... msmpeg4v2 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2<br> V..... msmpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 (codec msmpeg4v3)<br> V..... msvideo1
Microsoft Video-1<br> V..... pam PAM (Portable AnyMap) image<br> V..... pbm PBM (Portable BitMap) image<br> V..... pcx PC Paintbrush PCX image<br> V..... pgm PGM (Portable GrayMap) image<br> V..... pgmyuv PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image<br> VF.... png PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image<br> V.....
ppm PPM (Portable PixelMap) image<br> VF.... prores Apple ProRes<br> VF.... prores_aw Apple ProRes (codec prores)<br> V.S... prores_ks Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro) (codec prores)<br> V..... qtrle QuickTime Animation (RLE) video<br> V..... r10k AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec<br> V..... r210 Uncompressed RGB 10-bit<br> V.....
rawvideo raw video<br> V..... roqvideo id RoQ video (codec roq)<br> V..... rv10 RealVideo 1.0<br> V..... rv20 RealVideo 2.0<br> V..... sgi SGI image<br> V..... snow Snow<br> V..... sunrast Sun Rasterfile image<br> V.....
svq1 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1<br> V..... targa Truevision Targa image<br> V..... libtheora libtheora Theora (codec theora)<br> V..... tiff TIFF image<br> V..... utvideo Ut Video<br> V..... v210 Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit<br> V..... v308 Uncompressed packed 4:4:4<br> V.....
v408 Uncompressed packed QT 4:4:4:4<br> V..... v410 Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit<br> V..... wmv1 Windows Media Video 7<br> V..... wmv2 Windows Media Video 8<br> V..... xbm XBM (X BitMap) image<br> V..... xface X-face image<br> V..... xwd XWD (X Window Dump)
image<br> V..... y41p Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit<br> V..... yuv4 Uncompressed packed 4:2:0<br> V..... zlib LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB<br> V..... zmbv Zip Motion Blocks Video</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>Clearly libvpx isn't listed here. </span></div><div><br></div><div>However, the output of ./ffmpeg -codecs mentions vp9 as in <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> D.V.L. vp6f On2 VP6 (Flash version)<br> D.V.L. vp8 On2 VP8<br> ..V.L. vp9 Google VP9<br> D.V.L. webp WebP<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier
New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Would you please suggest what might be going wrong and what I should be doing to enable support for VP9 in my FFmpeg build.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thanks</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Arvind<br></div></div></body></html>