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Reputation: 159

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

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

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/[email protected]/msg16415.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,

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10640

Answers (2)

deesto
deesto

Reputation: 101

There's a compatibility problem with this version of VLC (2.0.8) and the development version of ffmpeg on which it depends.

From: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40025:

This will "just work" when VLC is updated to 2.1 which will happen well before ffmpeg becomes 2.0

Without manually patching (as you've done), you may have to wait for v2.1 for a clean fix.

Upvotes: 0

user2696674
user2696674

Reputation: 159

What I did is to add the following patch to configure.ac file:

 AC_ARG_ENABLE(avcodec,
 [  --enable-avcodec        libavcodec codec (default enabled)])
 AS_IF([test "${enable_avcodec}" != "no"], [
-  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(AVCODEC,[libavcodec >= 54.25.0 libavutil >= 51.22.0], [
-    AS_IF([test "${enable_sout}" != "no"], [
-      PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([libavcodec < 55],, [
-        AC_MSG_ERROR([libavcodec version 55 requires --disable-sout.])
-      ])
-    ])
+  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(AVCODEC,[libavcodec >= 53.34.0 libavutil >= 51.22.0], [
     PKG_CHECK_EXISTS([libavcodec < 56],, [
       AC_MSG_ERROR([libavcodec versions 56 and later are not supported yet.])
     ])

next, I ran 

# autoconf

now, when running does not prompt the error for not supporting newer versions of libavcodec :)

Upvotes: 4

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