Fixing "output buffer too small" issue for ffmpeg with libmp3lame: centos, linux, ffmpeg, libmp3lame, video encoding, 64bit

This is the error message I got

[libmp3lame @ 0x95c0090]lame: output buffer too small (buffer index: 9404, free bytes: 388)
Audio encoding failed

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Error caused by incompatible libmp3lame 3.98-2 with ffmpeg
I've googled this error message and found out sometimes it attaches this note "can be treated with downgrade libmp3lame to version 3.97 or 3.98"

Thing is, in most updated distros' repositories, you will not find these 'outdated' versions.
I've done it on CentOS 5.4, it should not be too far away from this explination in any other distro.

1. we remove version 3.98.2

rpm -e --nodeps lame  
rpm -e --nodeps lame-devel

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2. download the required version of libmp3lame

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-398.tar.gz

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3. Extract:

tar xvvzf lame-398.tar.gz

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4. Go into the extracted directory

cd lame-398

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5. and build!

./configure  
make  
make install

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We're almost done now, but if you'll try you'll get the following error message

ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libmp3lame.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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let's fix up the proper links for the new library;
for 32bit OS:

cd /usr/local/lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0

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and for 64bit OS:

cd /usr/local/lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so.0

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And voila!

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Fixing "output buffer too small" issue for ffmpeg with libmp3lame

centos

linux

ffmpeg

libmp3lame

video encoding

64bit

Linux

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