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FFmpeg file location

PostPosted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:53 am
by joehall
Hi

I am struggling to point Serviio to the correct location of FFmpeg on my computer. I know I have to use -Dffmpeg.location to define it but I am unsure what file or folder to point it at. FFmpeg is installed at ~/ffmpeg-sources/ffmpeg, but I am unsure which of the files in this folder I am supposed to be pointing it at. I have included below a list of the files in the ffmpeg folder.

  Code:
joe@stealth:~/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg$ ls
arch.mak                COPYING.LGPLv3   libavcodec     MAINTAINERS
Changelog               CREDITS          libavdevice    Makefile
cmdutils.c              doc              libavfilter    presets
cmdutils_common_opts.h  ffmpeg.c         libavformat    README
cmdutils.h              ffmpeg_filter.c  libavresample  RELEASE
common.mak              ffmpeg.h         libavutil      tests
compat                  ffmpeg_opt.c     libpostproc    tools
configure               ffplay.c         library.mak    version.sh
COPYING.GPLv2           ffprobe.c        libswresample
COPYING.GPLv3           ffserver.c       libswscale
COPYING.LGPLv2.1        INSTALL          LICENSE

Re: FFmpeg file location

PostPosted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 12:27 pm
by will
You need to compile it first, which will give you an ffmpeg binary, then point Serviio at /home/USERNAME/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg/ffmpeg