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

Question

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,

Answer 1

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 :)