I am trying to install vlc 0.8.1 on fedora core 2 from a tar.gz.
Once i use the "./configure" command it starts to config and stops with


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checking ffmpeg/avcodec.h presence... no
checking for ffmpeg/avcodec.h... no
configure: error: Missing header file ffmpeg/avcodec.h.
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I hve tryed downloading ffmpeg from the vlc site and extracting then copying the file to the "../modules/codecs/Ffmpeg/" directory and it still does't work.
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What am i doing wrong?

you need ffmpeg fully installed. the file should actually reside at somewhere like /usr/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h but it needs to get there through a proper install, don't just copy it!

i have installed ffmpeg and it still gives me the "header missing" thing. ffmpeg is located in "/usr/local/bin" but vlc keaps saying that avcodec.h is missing.

Also how do i make python install in /usr/local/bin?

Had the same problem. Don't know for sure, but to configure ffmpeg I used

./configure --enable-mp3lame --enable-vorbis --enable-pp --enable-a52 --enable-a52bin --enable-shared

I'm guessing the key might be the --enable-shared, as well as it seems they had almost everything disabled by default.

That fixed the avcodec.h problem.

Then vlc's configure complained about a postprocessor (for which I had to create a link from /usr/local/include to /path/to/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libpostproc called postproc

then my configure completed OK.

Now I'm stuck on the make portion - it complains

./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-video_filter.o)(.text+0x13b): In function `OpenFilter__ffmpeg':
: undefined reference to `avpicture_alloc'
./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-video_filter.o)(.text+0x9c5): In function `CloseFilter__ffmpeg':
: undefined reference to `avpicture_free'
./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-chroma.o)(.text+0x172): In function `OpenChroma__ffmpeg':
: undefined reference to `avpicture_alloc'
./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-chroma.o)(.text+0x4fd): In function `CloseChroma__ffmpeg':
: undefined reference to `avpicture_free'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [vlc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pengt/vlc-0.8.1'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pengt/vlc-0.8.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Good luck to us both!

I got tired of beating my head against the wall and just downloaded

http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...-binary.tar.gz

tar zxvf vlc-binary.tar.gz
cd vlc
rpm -i --force *.rpm
vlc&

bingo!

I tried the previous post, which was also the instructions on the VLC homepage, and I am getting Failed Dependencies errors. Several of them:

libcdio.so.0 is needed by cdinfo-0........
""""""
"""""""
etc.

What's the deal with the difficulty installing this player? It is too bad, cause it rocks on win. I was hoping to get it working on Fedora.

Anyone have any ideas?

did you install new libraries?

have you tried: ldconfig
?

matt

The reason for all this is that ffmpeg changed the defns of avpicture_{free,alloc} to static void ().
Changes that inlibavcodec/imgconvert and voila it compiles

Sorry to be rather thick but what exactly do I need to change to get this to work then?
Looking at the imgconvert.c file in ffmpeg the functions you mention definitely are not of type static void() and since the pointer that is passed to them is used withing the function changing them will blow them up.

What do I need to do to get vlc to compile?

It's a great piece of software but amazingly difficult to build so far!

Cliff

wouldn´t it be easier to add a repository with vlc to synaptic / yum?

The problem is I need to compile the mozilla plugin so I can use vlc embedded in a web page. Since I'm using Fedora there is no prebuilt plugin. Therefore I have to compile the whole thing. I also need to enhance the http operation of vlc to add my own functions.

It's all deeply frustrating and time wasting doubly so since the package is so versatile.

Linux is all about being 5% there with 95% of your time needed to get to where you want to be.