I tried over a week.. tried source installs, tried precompiled tgz's, tried different ffmpeg versions..
When I try to shot a movie captured from my desktop it always says: codec not found!
The last time I compiled it with ./configure --with-forced-embedded-ffmpeg and made it with some troubles (I had to symlink one .h file to another in a subdirectory). I searched the web but didn't find that problem discussed anywhere.
Can you give me some tips?
Last tried versions:
xvidcap-1.1.3
ffmpeg 0.4.6

PS. If I try to compile it without --with-forced-embedded-ffmpeg, I got the 'pow' error, described in the documentation, but when I try the solution described there I got another errors.

I tried with ffmpeg 0.4.8 and without --embeded-ffmpeg, and here is the error:

xtoffmpeg.c: In function `XImageToFFMPEG':
xtoffmpeg.c:1120: warning: passing arg 2 of `av_write_frame' makes pointer from integer without a cast
xtoffmpeg.c:1120: error: too many arguments to function `av_write_frame'

If you could solve that will be sufficient..


PS. I forgot to mention.. When I run the compiled xvid I get the following output immediately after the GUI appears:
Output not a video file or no counter in filename
Disabling autocontinue!
That is even before I try to record the video. The filename is 'test.mpeg'. If I change it with somestring.xwd it captures only different frames into xwd (X Windows Dump), but NOT mpeg

Anyone?..

Does this help?
mplayer -vo mpegpes vcd://
my xvidcap fail too

tanm