For whoever else may stumble on this via Google, or otherwise: --extra-cflags="-I/path/to/xvid.h" --extra-ldflags="-L/path/to/libxvid.so" My system also required a pthread option, so it came out like: ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libxvid --extra-libs=/my/path/to/xvidcore.so --extra-cflags="-I." --extra-ldflags="-L/my/path/to/xvidlib/directory -pthread" If the above isn't clear enough: --extra-cflags specifies additional search paths for an angle bracket include on a linux system. --extra-ldflags specifies additional search paths for libraries specified in the build on a linux system. Additional advice: If configure script crashes with a cryptic error message, open up config.err with your favorite text editor and look at the last few lines in the file. There should be some command to gcc (or whatever your compiler is) that failed to execute. Figure out what is wrong with that compiler line and add some flags to fix it. Good luck all! ripl wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Jakob Dam Jensen <jakobdj at gmail.com>

This is my problem - how do I tell ffmpeg explicitly where to look for extra libs? _______________________________________________

Try --extra-libs=/path/to/libs? with your configure command.

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