[FFmpeg-user] configure failed for ffmpeg in debian system

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

kostas kapetanakis <kapekost <at> gmail.com> writes:

> root <at> mclab1:/home/kapekost/ffmpeg# ./configure 
> --enable-shared --disable-debug --enable-libx264
> libx264 is gpl and --enable-gpl is not specified.

FFmpeg by default is licensed under the LGPL, x264 is 
more restrictive and cannot be distributed under the 
rules of the LGPL.
If you want to link FFmpeg against x264 (this is what 
--enable-libx264 does), you have to enable the GPL 
for all FFmpeg components (to make it clear that it is 
not LGPL anymore).

Hope that helps, Carl Eugen