Comments on: Compiling custom ffmpeg with all bells and whistles on Ubuntu 8.10

By: zynga

zynga — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:21:18 +0000

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By: DgMv

DgMv — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:46:46 +0000

I know how to solve the problem with the shared libraries.

1. Create 2 files in “/etc/profile.d” directory, “libs.sh” and “libs.csh”

2. In “libs.sh” write:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH”

3. In “libs.csh” write:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

4. Reboot, or close session.

ffmpeg will work, I have test it. This is the best way to solve it, and the formal way to set global envirioment variables.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:10:14 +0000

I followed your instructions carefully and complied a working version of ffmpeg. I needed to omit two options though. swscaler and vdpau. Swscaler is built-in I understand now – I don’t miss it. But vdpau would be a big improvement. Configure says: Unknown option “–enable-vdpau”

How can I fix that? I seem to have up to nvidia drivers to handle vdpau but configure seems not is acknowledge that the option even exists.