[FFmpeg-user] FFMPEG SOURCE BUILD QUESTION

[maujhsn]

Hey guys...issued solved with an uninstall then a  re-installation with
attention to detail with every input command in the gnome-terminal! Thanks!

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Lou <lou at lrcd.com> wrote:

> 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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