How To Install divxenc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install divxenc
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is divxenc
divxenc is:
A shell script which makes it easy to encode DVDs, (S)VCDs or video files to the FMP4/DivX video format using MEncoder from the MPlayer project. Here you can find more information about divxenc and the features it supports as well as a FAQ on various issues.
divxenc has a total of 8 video quality presets ranging from Normal Quality to Insane High Quality. It further has the ability to auto-detect a lot of stuff, like DVD titles, chapters, subtitles, audio streams, and it supports frequently used video filters like scale, crop, dering, deblock, noise, denoise, (un)sharp mask/gaussian blur, deinterlace, interlace, inverse telecine/pullup and hard telecine/3:2 pulldown.
There are three methods to install divxenc
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install divxenc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install divxenc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install divxenc
Install divxenc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install divxenc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install divxenc
Install divxenc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install divxenc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install divxenc
How To Uninstall divxenc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the divxenc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove divxenc
Uninstall divxenc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall divxenc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove divxenc
Remove divxenc Configurations and Data
To remove divxenc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge divxenc
Remove divxenc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove divxenc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge divxenc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install divxenc
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.