How To Install MP4Box in Linux x86_64

Wed, 03/24/2010 - 01:01 |

sentono

What is Mp4Box ?

MP4Box is a MP4 multiplexer. It can import MPEG-4 video, DivX, XviD, 3ivx, h264 etc, audio streams and subtitles into the .mp4 container. The end result is a compliant MP4 stream. It can also extract streams from a .mp4. MP4Box is a command line tool, but can be used with graphical user interfaces such as YAMB or my MP4box GUI.

What is zlib ?

zlib is a software library used for data compression. zlib was written by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpac/files/

Download MP4Box and Libraries

#cd /root
#wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gpac/GPAC/GPAC%200.4.5/gpac-0.4.5...
#wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gpac/GPAC%20extra%20libs/GPAC%20e...

Installing Zlib

#yast install zlib*
or
#yum install zlib*

Extract and Compiling MP4Box

#tar -zxf gpac-0.4.5.tar.gz
#tar -zxf gpac_extra_libs-0.4.5.tar.gz
#cd gpac_extra_libs
#cp -r * ../gpac/extra_lib
#cd ../gpac
#chmod +x configure
#./configure
#make lib
#make apps
#make install lib
#make install
#cp bin/gcc/libgpac.so /usr/lib

If everything goes smoothly.
You can verify it with the command below :

#/usr/bin/MP4Box -version
MP4Box - GPAC version 0.4.5 (build 33)
GPAC Copyright: (c) Jean Le Feuvre 2000-2005
(c) ENST 2005-200X

IMPORTANT

This tutorial is working with any 64 bit O/s but not working in 32 bit O/s
So please make sure you install MP4Box in 64 bit O/s

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 02:04.

Help

Hi,

Nice tutorial. Do you think you can help me with a tutorial on a 34-bit OS?

Submitted by sentono on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 21:35.

read all previous comment, it

read all previous comment,

it seems there is an answered on those comment for 32 bit o/s
sorry i don't have any 32 bit o/s anymore so i can't test it out

Submitted by stunning boy (not verified) on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 06:11.

this is indeed a useful,

this is indeed a useful, helpful and informative tutorial very well described as well.

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Submitted by Aslam (not verified) on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 02:32.

Good Tutorial

Thank you very much for such a nice and short tutorial, Works like4 a charm.

Submitted by Greg Hartwig (not verified) on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 03:37.

make install lib

I think it should be "#make install-lib" instead of "#make install lib", according to doc/INSTALL.gcc

Submitted by octopus (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 19:04.

I actually had better luck

I actually had better luck compiling this on a 32 bit platform!!!

I used a SUSE 32 bit AMI on Amazon's EC2 service.

The only thing I did differently was to run the ./run_configure.sh shell script instead of running ./configure, I'm not sure if that made a difference or not.

Now I have a perfectly working MP4Box app, and I am very happy after hours of trial and error.

Submitted by octopus (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 16:45.

compile error, help

I ended up with the following at the end of #make lib

/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libz.a(gzio.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libz.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libgpac.so] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/download/gpac/src'
make: *** [lib] Error 2

Any ideas what I would do to fix that? Otherwise, thanks for the instructions. This is the closest I've gotten yet, lol.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 16:40.

I end up with the following

I end up with the following errors at the end of #make lib

Any idea what I do to fix that?

Submitted by lamsao (not verified) on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 10:40.

Got it installed

Thanks for the instrucitons. I got MP4Box compiled and installed on a 64-BIT CentOS 5.3 machine (actually it is a VMware machine).

I encountered the same error as PsySc0rpi0n with glut library and had to install freeglut-devel package via Package Manager GUI. Instead of copying the libgpac.so to /usr/lib, I had to copy it to /usr/local/lib. Otherwise, running MP4Box produced an error "libgpac.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 12:11.

I am using a 64-bit Fedora 13

I am using a 64-bit Fedora 13 and I used yum to install gpac which it installed from rpmfusion and its dependencies a53dec, freeglut, gpac-libs, js and libmad and MP4Box was part of the install.

Submitted by sentono on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 20:01.

hei lamsao,, glad to hear you

hei lamsao,, glad to hear you success installed mp4box :)
anyway you don't need to copied libgpac.so.to to /usr/lib or to /usr/local/lib

you can just modify ld symlink.

#vi /etc/ld.so.conf

### add this lines below ###
/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib

After that reload ld so cache updated

#ldconfig.

done :)

So you don't need to manually copy the files into the directory
hope this also can help

Submitted by PsySc0rpi0n (not verified) on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 13:44.

Compiling mp4box

Compilation returns the following error at the end of command "sudo make lib":

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglut
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libgpac.so] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/********/Desktop/Downloads/gpac/src'
make: *** [lib] Error 2

Can you help me?

Submitted by Flavio Tooru (not verified) on Sun, 06/13/2010 - 19:08.

You must install glut-devel

You must install glut-devel package

Submitted by sentono on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 19:57.

i believe mp4box is not

i believe mp4box is not working in 32 bit o/s.
I also personally have a problem with mp4box in 32 bit o/s so i go with 64 bit o/s which is installed smoothly :)

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