[FFmpeg-user] FFMPEG SOURCE BUILD QUESTION

[Lou]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012, at 02:51 PM, maujhsn wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:32 PM, maujhsn <103730258b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > James the path does not have a directory called ffmpeg...ffmpeg is just a
> > executable binary file.
> >
> > I tried to create a directory in that path with this result:
> >
> > ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Downloads/ffmpeg-linux64-20121206$ sudo mkdir ffmpeg
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `ffmpeg': File exists
> >
> > so to answer your question I have tried...look
> >
> > ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Downloads/ffmpeg-linux64-20121206$ ./configure && sudo
> > make ./ffmpeg
> >
> > bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:19 PM, James Darnley <james.darnley at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> ./configure && make &&
> >> >> ./ffmpeg
>
> James do I sound frustrated.....
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Downloads/ffmpeg-linux64-20121206$ ./configure && sudo
> make
> ./ffmpeg
> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Downloads/ffmpeg-linux64-20121206$
> 
> DOES ANYBODY IN THIS MAILING LIST HAVE SOLVABLE ANSWERS FOR THIS?

James already told you what to do several times. It appears that you
believe ffmpeg-linux64-20121206.tar.bz2 contains source code that you
have to compile. This is not true. It seems to contain several binaries
already, meaning you do not need to compile anything. Since you did not
provide where this archive files originated from we can not easily
duplicate any potential issues you may be experiencing.

To run it, do this:
cd ~/Downloads/ffmpeg-linux64-20121206
./ffmpeg

That is it: no ./configure, no make. Just run those two commands.

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