Upgraded, advanced or not normally available multimedia packages for Trusty

*Please note that if using this ppa I would *not* try upgrading to 14.10/15.04,
ect. Do a fresh install instead. The intent here is just for users wishing to st
ay on 14.04*
If upgrading releases anyway use ppa-purge *First* sudo ppa-purge ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
Also note that using this ppa then disabling may cause issue for installing i386
packages like used by wine. So once enabled leave enabled or purge before remov
ing.
Additionally if using apt-get * sudo apt-get dist-upgrade will be needed* at ti
mes.(pay attention). Otherwise package managers may be ok.
So typically sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
A few notes:
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg - needed for some apps that still use gstreamer-0.10 & also
provides h.264 in html5 decoding for firefox < 30.
Note that Firefox 30 will support h.264 in html5 thru gstreamer1.0-libav & shoul
d be available soon
A standalone ppa is here for gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/gstffmpeg-keep
Added: gstreamer-vaapi, now works ok...
Totem+grilo - it's quite possible this & RB+grilo will show in 14.04 by first po
int release, if so will probably remove. Also note some plugins work well, some
don't at all, bit of a mess
rhythmbox+grilo - needs to be enabled in rhythmbox > tools > plugins
Plus install grilo-plugins if not already
mpv - described here, add. info links
https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/mpv-tests
The mpv build in this ppa uses quvi0.9, the above linked ppa quvi0.4
For vaapi I'd use --vo=opengl-hq --hwdec=vaapi ( or --vo=opengl for some?
As --vo=vaapi can cause tearing in fullscreen
*Note* - Osc config options now go into ~/.mpv/lua-settings/osc.config
refer to manpage or pdf in /usr/share/doc/mpv
If this is a new install of mpv setting are in ~/.config/mpv
mplayer - described here, note mencoder is not inc. & likely will not be, you ma
y be able to use repo mencoder..
https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/mplayer-test
fdkaac (fdkaac-encoder) - described here
https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/fdkaac-encoder
x264 - for use with ffmpeg from here, supports both 8 & 10 bit encoding
ffmpeg -

a static build for use of the binaries, installed to /opt/ffmpeg

binaries are symlinked in /usr/bin (ffmpeg, ffplay, ffprobe
For info on using libfdk_aac see here http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC
Can be
s 8
For 10
export
or
export

used for both 8 & 10 bit x264 encoding with this ppa's libx264, default i
bit preload the 10 bit .so first in terminal, eg.,
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/x264-10bit/libx264.so.142
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/x264-10bit/libx264.so.142

libav - has fdkaac encoding enabled

yasm has been patched to improve compiling x265
devede can use either avconv or ffmpeg from here
1st choice for previewer is mplayer (version here is best
K9copy Mainly for ripping, as far as encoding there are better apps. If inclined to use
for encoding then use mencoder as ffmpeg support is quite limited
For rhythmbox users a wide range of plugins can be found here https://launchpad.net/~fossfreedom/+archive/rhythmbox-plugins
Abcde ck. Suggested in synaptic for add. useful packages
A guide to config is here http://www.andrews-corner.org/abcde.html
An excellent audio recorder is available here https://launchpad.net/~osmoma/+archive/audio-recorder
A good blender ppa is here https://launchpad.net/~irie/+archive/blender
To further extend this ppa to libav11 check here https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/testing6
To repeat *Please note that if using this ppa I would *not* try upgrading to 14.10/15.04,
ect. Do a fresh install instead. The intent here is just for users wishing to st
ay on 14.04*
If upgrading anyway use ppa-purge first sudo ppa-purge ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
Also note that with apt-get a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is needed for initial se
tup & with some package upgrades
More info: https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
2. After adding the PPA, run below commands one by one to upgrade to the 2.2.0 r
elease from previous version:
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-*

Uninstall/Downgrade VLC:
To downgrade to previous release, install ppa-purge and purge the PPA which also
downgrade packages installed from it:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
To remove VLC, just run:
sudo apt-get remove vlc vlc-plugin-*