[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg build fail with libx264

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

James Board <jpboard2 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

>     git clone git:://git.videolan.org/x264.git
>     make

This fails here (and makes it practically impossible 
to help you / answer your question).

[...]

> Then I tried to configure ffmpeg
>     ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libx264

You probably need something like: 
--extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib

> and received this error
> ERROR: libx264 must be installed and version must be >= 0.118

Doesn't your distribution offer a newer version?
(And how does this work with MEncoder which uses 
the exact same configure check?)

Carl Eugen