Comments on: Installing FFMPEG on CentOS 5

By: retry

retry — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:59:05 +0000

Yeah but my problem wasn’t related to trying to get extra codecs working. It’s an error in some device code in the core ffmpeg. I was getting that error with a vanilla configuration.

By: gregory

gregory — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:43:24 +0000

@ retry

you might try checking this post: http://gregorytomlinson.com/encoded/2008/06/11/a-robust-ffmpeg-install-for-centos-5/

Some of this has been discussed there

By: retry

retry — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:34:34 +0000

So I decided to export an arbitrary revision number (14000), and it worked!

So somewhere between 14000 and 15290 (HEAD as of this writing) something got BORKED. But what can you expect from a project with no stable releases?

By: retry

retry — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:08:30 +0000

I get the EXACT same error on Centos 4.6

By: aharwood

aharwood — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:55:32 +0000

WHen I try to compile I get the following error:

In file included from libavdevice/v4l.c:32:
/usr/include/linux/videodev.h:56: error: syntax error before “ulong”
/usr/include/linux/videodev.h:72: error: syntax error before ‘}’ token
libavdevice/v4l.c: In function `grab_read_header’:
libavdevice/v4l.c:77: error: storage size of ‘tuner’ isn’t known
libavdevice/v4l.c:141: error: invalid application of `sizeof’ to incomplete type `video_tuner’
libavdevice/v4l.c:148: error: invalid application of `sizeof’ to incomplete type `video_tuner’
libavdevice/v4l.c:77: warning: unused variable `tuner’
make: *** [libavdevice/v4l.o] Error 1

Do you have any idea what the problem is?

By: A Robust FFMPEG Install for CentOS 5 at Encoded | Gregory Tomlinson

A Robust FFMPEG Install for CentOS 5 at Encoded | Gregory Tomlinson — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:04:08 +0000

[...] little while back, I posted a basic install of ffmpeg for CentOS 5. After working with that build over the last month, I found I needed to expand it to include many [...]