Wednesday, October 31, 2007

How to install pymedia on Ubuntu (Gutsy)

"Pymedia is a Python library for accessing and manipulating media files. It makes audio and video playback/creation a snap for even a newcomer to programming." There is a deb installer available for pymedia 1.3.5 but not for 1.3.7 So I decided to write this howto.

First install all the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libasound2-dev python-pygame
(Pygame is not really necessary, but recommended.)

Extract a download of pymedia-*.tgz and open a terminal in the extracted folder, so we can build pymedia:
python setup.py build

This should display:
Using UNIX configuration...

OGG : found
VORBIS : found
FAAD : found
MP3LAME : found
VORBISENC : found
ALSA : found
Continue building pymedia ? [Y,n]:

If everything is found press Y

Finally install pymedia:
sudo python setup.py install


Test if pymedia installed correctly by typing this at the python shell:
import pymedia


You may now proceed to the pymedia tutorials.

6 comments:

  1. I there Stani, it's Marco.

    An even better way to intall it is through a .deb, witch.. i've built a long time ago.
    It's for python 2.4, but I could package it for the newer 2.5 if needed.

    Find me on jabber if you want it.

    Cheers

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  2. Actually, I'd like to see more recent build of the pymedia packaged as .deb. I've been trying to build this module here but I keep getting compiler errors. I'm currently stuck at the following error message: "/usr/bin/ld: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/sound/sound.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `_Py_NoneStruct' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
    build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/sound/sound.o: could not read symbols: Bad value"

    =|

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  3. Anyone think there might be a kubuntu package coming along?

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  4. Thanks for the guide! I had trouble installing on Ubuntu 8.04 and Python 2.5, so I wrote a follow up guide:
    http://jhcore.com/2008/06/18/pymedia-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron/

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  5. I'm getting the same error as shandread,

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