[SOLVED] Problem on updating FFMPEG to version 4

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Guys, I updated HA to version 1.110 and up until now I couldn’t get my ONVIF cameras to work again.

To sum up, on my searchs I found out here that I need FFMPEG version 4 in order to install AV version 8.0.1.

But I can’t get FFMPEG updated to version 4

Stream page says that I should be able to update using

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4
sudo apt upgrade

But this is what I get when I try

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 95, in <module>
    sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__
    self.reload_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
    self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 89, in get_sources
    (self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Raspbian/stretch

I read somewhere that these “ppa” are for ubuntu systems. To install PPA on raspberry pi I tried both ways here and none of them worked.

If I try to just sudo apt-get heres what I get that FFMPEG is already on the latest version (but it says 3.2.14, no 4)

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
ffmpeg is already the newest version (7:3.2.14-1~deb9u1+rpt1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Please, help me update it to version 4 so I can then update AV to 8.0.1 and finally have my ONVIF cameras working again.

Thanks!

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For Raspbian you need to install from source… though updating to Buster may help.

My process was:

wget http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-4.2.2.tar.xz
tar xf ffmpeg-4.2.2.tar.xz
cd ffm*2
./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic
make -j4
sudo make install

That worked perfectly for me.

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Thanks, dude.
Worked like a charm for me too.

(I just didn’t know on what directory to install, so I installed on my home directory.
So after installing I had to add “include /HOME_DIRECTORY/ffmpeg-4.2.2/libavdevice/*”
to /etc/ld.so.conf so it can recognize the libs)

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I would like to share some additional notes on this for whoever is setting up 1st generation Nest cameras on RPi3
I had to add --enable-openssl so I could get the camera streams to work on Home Assistant Core 2022.3.8

./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic --enable-openssl

Also, I was getting this error message:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ffmpeg
/usr/bin/ffmpeg: not found

So I had to type in the following to fix it:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ hash -d ffmpeg

After that I got a different error message:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ffmpeg
ImportError: libavcodec.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It turns out that ffmpeg could not find the libraries:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ldd `which ffmpeg`
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7eda8000)
        /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem.so (0x76f14000)
        libavdevice.so.58 => not found
        libavfilter.so.7 => not found
        libavformat.so.58 => not found
        libavcodec.so.58 => not found
        libswresample.so.3 => not found
        libswscale.so.5 => not found
        libavutil.so.56 => not found
        libm.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libm.so.6 (0x754c4000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0 (0x75498000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 (0x75342000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libxcb.so.1 (0x75313000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x752f3000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libz.so.1 (0x752cc000)
        libssl.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libssl.so.1.1 (0x7524d000)
        libcrypto.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x7503b000)
        liblzma.so.5 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblzma.so.5 (0x7500a000)
        /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 (0x54b17000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libXau.so.6 (0x74fff000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x74fea000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so.2 (0x74fd6000)
        libbsd.so.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbsd.so.0 (0x74fab000)

I have fixed it by adding following entries in /etc/ld.so.conf

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo vim /etc/ld.so.conf

/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib

Save file and run command:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ldconfig

Then you should see something like this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ldd `which ffmpeg`
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7eda8000)
        /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem.so (0x76f14000)
        libavdevice.so.58 => /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.58 (0x76ee6000)
        libavfilter.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/libavfilter.so.7 (0x76c26000)
        libavformat.so.58 => /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.58 (0x769e5000)
        libavcodec.so.58 => /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.58 (0x7588b000)
        libswresample.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libswresample.so.3 (0x75868000)
        libswscale.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libswscale.so.5 (0x757ec000)
        libavutil.so.56 => /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.56 (0x75533000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libm.so.6 (0x754c4000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0 (0x75498000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 (0x75342000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libxcb.so.1 (0x75313000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x752f3000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libz.so.1 (0x752cc000)
        libssl.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libssl.so.1.1 (0x7524d000)
        libcrypto.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x7503b000)
        liblzma.so.5 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblzma.so.5 (0x7500a000)
        /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 (0x54b17000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libXau.so.6 (0x74fff000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x74fea000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so.2 (0x74fd6000)
        libbsd.so.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbsd.so.0 (0x74fab000)

Restart Home Assistant Core, 1st generation Nest camera stream should now work!
Hopefully someone find this useful because it took me a day or more to figure this out