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FFMPEG with libxvid libx264 and libfaac without root access

banon posted 2008 Oct 04 03:52

Hi. I need some help in getting ffmpeg compiled with --enable-libxvid --enable-libfaac --enable-x264. i ain't got root access on server, where i need to compile it, so i'm not able to install codecs in normal dir /usr/lib... or something. it's kinda obvious that when trying to compile ffmpeg it can't find codecs in usual places. how can i 'tell' ffmpeg to search for the libs in some place else?

disturbed1 posted 2008 Oct 06 06:19

You want to compile and install your libs to a local directory, then export that direcoty with pkgconfig before running ./configure for ffmpeg. :D Example - for let's say lame. ./configure --prefix=/home/name/$FFMPEG-LIB-DIR make make install or ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install DESTDIR=$FFMPEG-LIB-DIR It will be trial and error for the above. I know for a fact x264 can get by with ./configure --prefix=/usr, then passing a destination variable to make install. Then for ffmpeg - PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$FFMPEG-LIB-DIR/usr/lib/pkgconfig" \ ./configure --prefix=/$HOME \ --$YOUR-OTHER-OPTIONS $FFMPEG-LIB-DIR is an actual directory you create. Any thing else with $ is just an arbitrary value specific to you. You might want to jump on ffmpeg's IRC and ask the question there if you run into trouble with the above.

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