[MPlayer-users] ffprobe reporting errors, but mplayer playing mp4 file just fine?

[Albretch Mueller]

 I am trying to installed ffprobe from source, but I am getting errors like:
~
 "I cannot find some of the required ffmpeg headers"
~
 without any other explanation
~
 what is going on here? How can I fix that problem?
~
 thanks
 lbrtchx

./configure \
--prefix="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/noarch" \
--exec-prefix="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/i386" \
--oldincludedir="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/old_includedir" \
--datadir="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/noarch/rodata" \
--htmldir="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/noarch/docs"

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for rm... /bin/rm
checking for pkg-config... pkg-config
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for pod2man... /usr/bin/pod2man
checking for pod2html... /usr/bin/pod2html
checking for texi2html... texi2html
checking for main in -lm... yes
checking for main in -lz... yes
checking for main in -lavutil... yes
checking for main in -lavcodec... yes
checking for main in -lavformat... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking libavformat/avformat.h usability... no
checking libavformat/avformat.h presence... no
checking for libavformat/avformat.h... no
configure: error: I cannot find some of the required ffmpeg headers


On 12/11/11, Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>From: Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>
>>To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports"
>> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
>>Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] ffprobe reporting errors, but mplayer playing
>> mp4 file just fine?
>>Message-ID: <20111211084404.GA2612 at 1und1.de>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
>>On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 04:12:17AM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>>> Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '<path to mp4 file>':
>>>   Duration: 00:06:17.70, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 823 kb/s
>>>     Stream #0.0(und): Invalid Codec type 28, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc
>>>     Stream #0.1(und): Invalid Codec type 86018
>>> Unsupported codec (id=1630826605) for input stream 1
>
>>Your FFmpeg installation is completely broken (-1 to 4 are the only
>>existing codec types and there is no reasonable way those values you
>>get can get there).
>
>  Even if it means installing the three of them ffmpeg, ffprobe and
> from source, do ffmpeg and/or ffprobe have some type of built-in
> integrity check?
>
>  Or do you know of code/scripts to check their integrity and configuration?
>
>  lbrtchx
>