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Make sure that "pkg-config --modversion libavcodec" works. If not, then FFmpeg is essentially not installed. Thank you very much, Rémi :D your answer is super helpful, really helped to fix this problem quickly! "pkg-config --modversion libavcodec" command gave me the following e...

I am trying to build the most recent development version of vlc-3.0 (git cloned) from source, but running `./configure` gives me the following error: configure: error: Missing libav or FFmpeg That is despite I have built from source and installed a fresh ffmpeg-3.2.2 with the following configuration...