I was getting this error with ffserver failing to start on the latest release on the latest Ubuntu(11.10) and still got it when I rolled back to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with the latest ffmpeg from git and also when I tried an older release of ffmpeg. Lots of Googling yielded no answer until I found this Russian site and thanks to Google Translate, was able to read this patch. If you open ffserver.c in a text editor, and find the text below(it is around line number 4000 or so), this is where you'll make a small edit. Insert the line with the "+"(without including the "+" of course) save the changes and recompile(make). It worked for me.
Code:
my_http_addr.sin_port = htons(val);
+ my_http_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
} else if (!strcasecmp(cmd, "BindAddress")) {
get_arg(arg, sizeof(arg), &p);
if (resolve_host(&my_http_addr.sin_addr, arg) != 0) {
And the url for the Russian site:
http://www.mianet.ru/index.php/sysad...erver-a-ffmpeg
