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I try to compile vlc 0.8.5, but I receive the followin error:
configure: error: Could not find ffmpeg on your system: you may get it from http://ffmpeg.sf.net/ (cvs version is recommended). Alternatively you can use --disable-ffmpeg to disable the ffmpeg plugins.

This question is in the FAQ, but the answer doesn't help at all. This because I don't have a file configure-vlc.sh in the source tree.

I use the latest ffmpeg version from cvs.
I compiled ffmpeg like this: ./configure --enable-pp --enable-gpl --prefix=/usr
I also compiler ffmpeg like this: ./configure --enable-pp --enable-gpl. The prefix is /usr/local/ now.

I can't find no parametres witch I can use in order to comunicate to vlc where is ffmpeg.
I tryed to compile many versions of vlc, but with no success. Vlc can't find ffmpeg. But mpeg is there....

How can I fix this?

I fixed the problem by installing ffmpeg-config that is in the debian package libavformat-dev.

why build an old version?

For a few reasons.
1) I can't get vlc 0.8.6a to work with DreamBox DM500 - I can't play no stream from this device.
The image and sound is extremly corupted.

2) Because of this problem - viewtopic.php?f=11&t=41597,
that I understand that it didn't existed in older versions.

I hope to find some sort of a solution to use vlc with multicast and mpeg4.
I must relay from some DM500 to the clients in a compressed stream.
It works, but it doesn't work well.

Maybe vlc0.8.6.c works better?