cannot compile motion 3.2.12 with latest ffmpeg

Question

I was able to compile motion 3.2.12 before I upgraded my debian 5 to 6 (squeeze) and ffmpeg to the latest git. Now I get:

ffmpeg.c: In function 'ffmpeg_open':

ffmpeg.c:380: error: 'CODEC_TYPE_VIDEO' undeclared (first use in this function)

I tried the latest motion 3.2 and the trunk: same results.

Attached are:

config.log
session log of configure and make

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.12
ffmpeg version:	git-N-30120-ge6ec921
Libraries:	ffmpeg
Server OS:	Debian Squeeze, kernel 2.6.32

-- JarekCzekalski - 21 May 2011

Answer

Motion works with ffmpeg-0.6.3 the current release of ffmpeg , it's very tough to make it work for every single change of ffmpeg API .

So probably it will never work with GIT version of ffmpeg. But it will with ffmpeg 0.7

Cheers,

-- AngelCarpintero - 01 Jun 2011

Comment

The problem is that if one uses GIT version of mplayer, it forces him to use GIT version of ffmpeg. I thought the usual way is to compile GIT with GIT, as vlc does.

JarekCzekalski, 17 Jul 2011

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Try GIT or SVN trunk version of motion.

-- AngelCarpintero - 31 Oct 2011