I have running motion with a good result - only the mpeg features are disabled - error message when trying to ./configure below
Error message from ./configure
checking for ffmpeg autodetecting... not found
**********************************************
* libavcodec.a or libavcodec.so or *
* libavformat.a or libavformat.so not found: *
* ALL FFMPEG FEATURES DISABLED *
* *
* Please read the Motion Guide for help: *
* http://motion.sourceforge.net *
**********************************************
But:
FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
built on Jan 2 2010 13:03:48 with gcc 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]
configuration: --shlibdir=/usr/lib --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared
--enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac
--enable-nonfree --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-gpl --enable-x11grab --enable-libschroedinger
--enable-libdirac --enable-libgsm --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb
--enable-libx264 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-pthreads
libavutil 50. 7. 0 / 50. 7. 0
libavcodec 52.45. 0 / 52.45. 0
libavformat 52.46. 0 / 52.46. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 2 / 0. 7. 2
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
FFmpeg UNKNOWN
libavutil 50. 7. 0 / 50. 7. 0
libavcodec 52.45. 0 / 52.45. 0
libavformat 52.46. 0 / 52.46. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 2 / 0. 7. 2
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0