[MPlayer-users] ffprobe reporting errors, but mplayer playing mp4 file just fine?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 06:07:20PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>  I am trying to installed ffprobe from source, but I am getting errors like:
> ~
>  "I cannot find some of the required ffmpeg headers"
> ~
>  without any other explanation
> ~
>  what is going on here? How can I fix that problem?
> ~
>  thanks
>  lbrtchx
> 
> ./configure \
> --prefix="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/noarch" \
> --exec-prefix="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/i386" \
> --oldincludedir="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/old_includedir" \
> --datadir="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/noarch/rodata" \
> --htmldir="<ffprobe_inst_dir>/ffprobe-53_inst/noarch/docs"

The ffprobe source is in FFmpeg, the sourceforge version you obviously
got is the 3 years outdated version.
And yes I contacted the author and suggested updating the sourceforge
page to point that out.