hi im useing sabayon linux 3.4 mini edition, i managed to download and configure xine-lib-1.1.15 but when i enter make i get one error at the end:

ff_audio_decoder.c: In function ‘ff_audio_decode_data’:
ff_audio_decoder.c:272: error: ‘AVCodecContext’ has no member named ‘bits_per_sample’
ff_audio_decoder.c:325: error: implicit declaration of function ‘avcodec_decode_audio’
ff_audio_decoder.c:325: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘avcodec_decode_audio’
ff_audio_decoder.c:330: error: ‘AVCodecContext’ has no member named ‘bits_per_sample’
make[3]: *** [xineplug_decode_ff_la-ff_audio_decoder.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hraesvelg/programs/xine-lib-1.1.15/src/combined/ffmpeg'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hraesvelg/programs/xine-lib-1.1.15/src/combined'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hraesvelg/programs/xine-lib-1.1.15/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

does any one have nay ideas as to why this is happening and how to fix it

Is this with a current external ffmpeg library? With that I had a similar problem, and fixed it like so:

... using your ffmpeg library path, which is /usr/local/lib here.