Introduction

Debian testing has the latest version of Winff. For stable this won't happen until squeeze. So until then (and after that for faster updates) Debian packages build for Ubuntu are available at winff.org and at my Personal Package Archive (PPA) provided by Launchpad.

Also a fuller featured ffmpeg is available via http://www.debian-multimedia.org/.

Details Winff

If you are running the stable version of Debian you can easily install WinFF by using our Ubuntu repositories. The repositories come in two flavors. We provide our repository at http://winff.org or you can use the repository at Launchpad.

If you use the winff repository you need to accept the key AAFE086A. To get that installed you can run:

wget --quiet --output-document=- "http://winff.org/ubuntu/AAFE086A.gpg" | sudo apt-key add -

After that you need to add the repository to apt. You can do that by entering the line (1) in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winff.list. You will have to create that file, which can be done with the following command:

echo "deb http://winff.org/ubuntu hardy universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winff.list

You can also just add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list .

After you update using your favorite package manager (2) you can just choose winff from the list. If you have winff installed from Matt's package file, you might need to uninstall that first.

You can install WinFF directly now by running:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install winff

If you don't run the standard ffmpeg and want to make use of the more extended original set of presets, which you can download in the download section.

In order to use the preset file supplied with the package you might need to remove the old preset file in ~/.winff/presets.xml , but by doing that you will also remove self-made presets. So if you made or edited the presets, you want to compare the files manually.

If you are having problems with the described procedure, please file a bug in our bug tracker. Please include in the bug the output of

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winff.list

and

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install winff

(1) deb http://winff.org/ubuntu hardy universe (or if you prefer the PPA:) deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-climbing/ubuntu hardy main

(2) for instance sudo apt-get update or while in synaptic pressing "Reload"

(3) /usr/share/doc/winff/README.Debian

Details ffmpeg

Because of legal and copyright issues not all codec are standard available in ffmpeg from Debian. If you don't mind these issues you can install the fuller featured ffmpeg from http://debian-multimedia.org/. The full explanation is available at http://debian-multimedia.org/. In short the procedure is as follows:

• Add the GPG Key under root via:

  wget http://debian-multimedia.org/gpgkey.pub -O - | apt-key add - && apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring

• Then add the debian-multimedia repository to your sources, either in /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-multimedia:

  deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

or

  deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org etch main

or

  deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main

or

  deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org stable main  

Now you are ready to install the debian-multimedia version of ffmpeg.

Beware, because the debian-multimedia version of ffmpeg is usually newer, the presets that come with winff might not always work. Please take a look at the forum.