xvidcap audio settings missing in preferences

I have the same situation ...

Me too...

I can add this:
xvidcap --audio yes
Audio support not present in this binary.
Usage: xvidcap, ver 1.1.7, (c) rasca, berlin 1997,98,99, khb (c) 2003 - 07

Hmm why?

Hello,

I too have noticed the "Audio support not present in this binary." I think the binary would be more useful if audio support were enabled.

This bug also affects me.

Ubuntu 9.10, 64-bit. Installed xvidcap via the Ubuntu software center, version 1.1.7 on 2009-11-19.

Several discussions suggested that installing the .deb from sourceforge would fix this. There only seem to be i386 binaries there. Installing that with --force-architecture worked, but xvidcap won't run, claiming that libtheora.so.0 is missing (even though /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0 exists.)

A note re: my previous comment.

I downloaded the 1.1.7 source tarball and compiled. This works, with sound on my 64 bit 9.10 Ubuntu install. Not an ideal solution, but should work until the package in the repository gets fixed.

This bug was fixed in the package xvidcap - 1.1.7-0.2ubuntu6

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xvidcap (1.1.7-0.2ubuntu6) lucid; urgency=low

  * Switch to debhelper 7.
  * debian/patches/01_configure.diff:
    - Horrible-fix for adding audio support (LP: #375711).
  * debian/patches/04_desktop.diff:
    - Fix desktop file as per spec.
  * Bump debhelper,quilt build-dependencies.
  * Refresh patches, add descriptions.
 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:45:26 +0100

debdiff for asking an SRU for karmic

Haha, "horrible fix" is kinda right :)

Is there an explanation of what causes this behavior?

Of course, John.

As you can see from the buildlog, some functions that have been used are now deprecated:

xtoffmpeg.c: In function 'add_audio_stream':
xtoffmpeg.c:427: warning: 'audio_resample_init' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:2555)
xtoffmpeg.c:447: warning: 'audio_resample_init' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:2555)
xtoffmpeg.c: In function 'do_audio_out':
xtoffmpeg.c:551: warning: 'av_fifo_write' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/libavutil/fifo.h:82)
xtoffmpeg.c: In function 'xvc_ffmpeg_save_frame':
xtoffmpeg.c:1472: warning: 'av_alloc_format_context' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h:873)

Due to this, I forced the ffmpeg_audio check to "1" in order to achieve our goal.

BTW, I will forward this to upstream.

Is this fix will land in jaunty's update repository?

It would be great if this fix landed in karmic repository too

We're waiting for an ACK from a motu-sru team members, please don't change again the bug's status.

After thinking through it, although the fix in principle is hackish I think it's reasonably safe. ACK from MOTU-SRU.

Accepted xvidcap into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted xvidcap into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I just tested v5.1 in Karmic and it worked for me...Audio settings are there.
Thanks.

Tested on Jaunty too, it works fine.

This bug was fixed in the package xvidcap - 1.1.7-0.2ubuntu1.1

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xvidcap (1.1.7-0.2ubuntu1.1) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * Depend on libavcodec-unstripped-52 (LP: #290728).
  * debian/patches/01_configure.patch:
    - debian/patches/01_configure.diff:
      + Force check to enable the audio support (LP: #375711).
 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:36:34 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package xvidcap - 1.1.7-0.2ubuntu5.1

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xvidcap (1.1.7-0.2ubuntu5.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/01_configure.diff:
    - Force to enable the audio support (LP: #375711).
 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:32 +0100