Thanks for the very helpful tutorial. I got this to work (to the point of the sample video at least) in Kubuntu 8.04.
Just in case anyone else has this - I tripped over a small problem getting it working. The x264 section of the configure script complained that I didn't have a suitable assembler, and suggested yasm. I tried installing yasm, but the script then complained that the version wasn't recent enough. It suggested nasm, which I put in - the error went away.
I also discovered that it was necessary to delete everything and start again from the extraction from the archive after messing up step 5 by failing to sudo - i.e. simply repeating the step but using sudo didn't cure the problem.
Also, do you maybe mean 755 instead of 744 in step 7?
Thanks for the very helpful tutorial. I got this to work (to the point of the sample video at least) in Kubuntu 8.04.
Just in case anyone else has this - I tripped over a small problem getting it working. The x264 section of the configure script complained that I didn't have a suitable assembler, and suggested yasm. I tried installing yasm, but the script then complained that the version wasn't recent enough. It suggested nasm, which I put in - the error went away.
I also discovered that it was necessary to delete everything and start again from the extraction from the archive after messing up step 5 by failing to sudo - i.e. simply repeating the step but using sudo didn't cure the problem.
Also, do you maybe mean 755 instead of 744 in step 7?
Anyway, thanks again for the help.