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hi

I'm using Suse 9.0 and trying to install VLC.

I got the source code, and untar it.

When I do the ./configure

I have an error msg like this :

checking ffmpeg/avcodec.h usability... no
checking ffmpeg/avcodec.h presence... no
checking for ffmpeg/avcodec.h... no
configure: error: Missing header file ffmpeg/avcodec.h.

I think that the header file is missing in the source code. Has anyone encounter this error before ? How to deal with it ? (Don't suggest me to use binary pkgs).

Tks for your reply before hand.

hi

I'm using Suse 9.0 and trying to install VLC.

I got the source code, and untar it.

When I do the ./configure

I have an error msg like this :

checking ffmpeg/avcodec.h usability... no
checking ffmpeg/avcodec.h presence... no
checking for ffmpeg/avcodec.h... no
configure: error: Missing header file ffmpeg/avcodec.h.

Did you install ffmpeg (either the 0.4.8-release or cvs) before you ran configure?
If you don't want to use this library, use --disable-ffmpeg.

Additionally, you may want to install other codec-libraries too. (They are listed on the sourcecode-download-page.)

Try compiling ffmpeg first. Grab the ffmpeg Tarball http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 22.tar.bz2

unpack it to /home/your_home/ffmpeg and compile it with: then unpack vlc in a different directory and compile it: