Re: [libcvd-members] CVD + ffmpeg

[Edward Rosten]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Qi Pan wrote:

> I've tried installing ffmpeg from the svn repository and the package manager
> - not sure if either of those are in fact ffmpeg-devel?

Most distros usually provide a package containing the .so files, and a 
development package conaining the header files.

> There is a
> libffmpeg-devel in my package manager, but I can't install it due to
> conflicts... something about not being able to install libtheora-devel
> as libtheora0 would change vendor and then libffmpeg0 cannot be
> installed as installing amrwb would change the architecture...

Don't know about that I'm afriad.

> From what I remember when getting ffmpeg to work with cvd in suse 10.2, I
> just installed ffmpeg from svn which then enabled cvd to detect it.
>
> Gerhard also says that he cannot get ffmpeg to be detected by cvd either...

Which systems are these?

> Although maybe my problem lies in finding some way to install
> libffmpeg-devel?

It looks like it, although installing the SVN version should have fixed 
that. Where did you install it?

> I've enclosed config.err when installing ffmpeg and config.log for cvd as
> well as a text file containing the output from ./configure on cvd.
>
> Hope they are the required files!

OK, can you find where ffmpeg/avcodec.h is on your system?

This is what config.log is complaining about.

-Ed