[MEncoder-users] Trouble building mencoder with x264 support

[Simon]

Hi There,

I have a standard debian lenny and am trying to build mencoder with x264
support. I have downloaded both x264 via git and mplayer via subversion.
Here are my basic build commands:

# cd x264
# ./configure
# make; make install

# cd mplayer
# ./configure --disable-gui --enable-png --enable-jpeg
# make; make install

# mencoder -ovc help
MEncoder SVN-r29962-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Available codecs:
   copy     - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters.
   frameno  - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS.
   raw      - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format
explicitly.
   lavc     - libavcodec codecs - best quality!
   vfw      - VfW DLLs, read DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html.
   qtvideo  - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.
   xvid     - XviD encoding

Can anyone please assist with what i am missing here?

Thanks!

Simon