configure: error: libavcodec versions 55 and later are not s

[saman_artorious]

I get this error when I ./configure vlc-2.0.8

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configure: error: libavcodec versions 55 and later are not supported yet

I already downloaded the gits for ffmpeg, lame-3.98.4, x264, yasm-1.2.0 and installed them successfully. As I googled this error, I found out the following links:
https://patches.videolan.org/patch/1141/
http://www.mail-archive.com/vlc-commits ... 16415.html

these links include a patch and suggest that this patch shall be substituted or added (i don't know) to the configure.ac file which exists inside the my vlc-2.0.8 folder.

As the links do not contain a step by step instruction in order to understand what commands to use and how to add the patch file, I would thank if you guide me through that.

Cheers,

[bernd_b]

I would suggest that you suffer from the fact that you ffmpeg is too recent (>!!!= 55).

I used this release candidate (2.1.0-rc1: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=113288 which compiled fine on my system using newer versions of ffmpeg.