How to compile ffmpeg?

[James]

Hello ,

I am trying to compile ffmpeg from source with the following options:

./configure --prefix=/etc/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libxvid --enable-gpl --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads

But when I do "make" I recieve a very strange error:

In file included from libavdevice/v4l2.c:38:
/usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:461: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘v4l2_std_id’
/usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:544: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘v4l2_std_id’
/usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:561: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘v4l2_std_id’
/usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:599: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘v4l2_std_id’
/usr/include/linux/videodev2.h:622: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘__s64’

... and so on.

Can someone who has CentOS or Red Hat i386 compile (./configure with the options mentioned above and make) the source code of ffmpeg and send to me the directory with the compiled source code? It's available at http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html

[Christina]

do you know how to compile software on linux?

I am sure you will find some tutorials or how to compile on google.And once you have understood the steps to compile software from the source in linux,then you can easily get the ffmpeg source from the ffmpeg project website and compile it by yourself.

[carl]

You can try the below code:


-–extra-ldflags=-L/opt/apps/lib \
--extra-cflags=-I/opt/apps/include

[sam]

You can also Build ffmpeg with this:

./configure --prefix=/home/x/ffmpeginstall/ --enable-faac --extra-libs=/home/x/ffmpeginstall/lib/libfaac.a --enable-gpl --extra-cflags=-I/home/x/ffmpeginstall/include --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --disable-shared --disable-debug --extra-ldflags=-L/home/x/ffmpeginstall/lib

[Rodricks]

It can be easily compiled under Win32, too. It is by far the fastest MPEG-2 encoder (AVI/DIVX4-->DVD/MPEG-2) . It was able to do NTSC in real time, >30 fps, on my 0.85 GHz, 'vanilla'. When I eventually get around to setting up CPU-specific optimizations for recompilation I expect it to go 40 or more. Its only downside for me is that it won't do the frame multiplication needed to take an AVI of less than 1 (e.g., 0.25) fps and convert it to 23.976. For Win32 compilation, use MSYS and MINGW, ./configure.