How to Install and Uninstall mencoder Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "mencoder" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install mencoder on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mencoder
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mencoder" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall mencoder on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mencoder package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: mencoder
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:1.4+ds1-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/video
Source: mplayer
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2869
Depends: mplayer, liba52-0.7.4 (>= 0.7.4), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libass9 (>= 1:0.13.6), libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.2), libavformat58 (>= 7:4.2), libavutil56 (>= 7:4.0), libbluray2 (>= 1:0.2.2), libbs2b0, libc6 (>= 2.29), libcdio-cdda2 (>= 10.2+2.0.0), libcdio-paranoia2 (>= 10.2+2.0.0), libcdio19 (>= 2.1.0), libdca0 (>= 0.0.5), libdv4 (>= 1.0.0), libdvdnav4 (>= 4.1.3), libdvdread8 (>= 4.1.3), libenca0 (>= 1.9), libfaad2 (>= 2.7), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgif7 (>= 5.1), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblzo2-2 (>= 2.02), libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b-3), libmng2 (>= 2.0.2), libmp3lame0 (>= 3.100), libmpeg2-4 (>= 0.5.1), libmpg123-0 (>= 1.13.7), libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libpostproc55 (>= 7:4.0), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libswresample3 (>= 7:4.0), libswscale5 (>= 7:4.0), libtheora0 (>= 1.0), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libtwolame0 (>= 0.3.6), libvorbisidec1 (>= 1.2.1+git20180316), libx264-160 (>= 2:0.160.3011+gitcde9a93), libxvidcore4 (>= 1.2.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: bzip2, fontconfig, fonts-freefont-ttf, mplayer-doc
Filename: pool/universe/m/mplayer/mencoder_1.4+ds1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 785392
MD5sum: 8241e3b2b9e13a5fd7c403026c3d675e
SHA1: 420c6282696f442f1b159f54e1fab012d667dccd
SHA256: 19173939447478edd32323ef02696f0c59d08747cec06c84ae7bac7814edb232
SHA512: 74d2c737ddba766557774262e42dffdc7cd4bfc5771b039333f5cc47270cba530003e80f8eb400e4469fb595713b1df47aecfdc44878863e2afa6fad7b2c6188
Homepage: https://www.mplayerhq.hu
Description-en: MPlayer's Movie Encoder
MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO,
ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files,
supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can
also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.
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This package contains mencoder, a simple movie encoder, designed to
encode MPlayer-playable movies
(AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET) to other
MPlayer-playable formats. It can encode with various codecs, like DivX4
(1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. Also has stream
copying and video resizing capabilities.
Description-md5: 3e0b1c03e45777592769ce1aa7a30c28
Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-audio