[Ffmpeg-devel] "ERROR: x264 not found", in error I believe

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 21 July 2006 at 04:06, Scott Frase wrote:
> Guys,
> I have a Fedora Core 4 system, am trying to compile ffmpeg with the 
> switches below and am receiving the following error:
> 
> [root at computer ffmpeg]# ./configure --enable-faad --enable-faac 
> --enable-x264 --enable-a52 --enable-a52bin --enable-static --enable-gpl
> ERROR: x264 not found
> If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
> version from SVN.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
> ffmpeg-devel at mplayerhq.hu mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
> Include the log file "config.err" produced by configure as this will help
> solving the problem.
> 
> 
> It looks like I may be getting the above error mistakenly, because I do 
> have the x264 libraries installed, as shown in the below screen dump:
> 
> [root at computer ffmpeg]# yum update x264*
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories..
> =============================================================================
> Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Updating:
> x264                    i386       0.0.439-1.2.fc4  freshrpms         194 k
> x264-devel              i386       0.0.439-1.2.fc4  freshrpms         210 k

r439 is far too old. ffmpeg works only with the latest SVN.

Regards,
R.

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