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Thanks, yohann, for your help. It doesn't help with specifying --prefix=/home/hp/vlc/ffmpeg. It still complains that ffmpeg/avcodec.h cannot be found. I found the file avcodec.h from ffmpeg/libavcodec subdirectory and copy it under ffpmeg/ Then the ./configure under vlc-0.8.6e/ becomes "checkin...

Hi Pericles,

I can see exactly as what you saw when I compile VLC 0.8.6e with ffmpeg under Debian.