fatal error: libavcodec/avcodec.h no such file or directory compilation terminated
Solution 1
You need to add the path to the libavcodec and libavformat include files to your command line. Find the include/ directory and add
-Ipath/to/include
for each of the relevant include files.
You'll also need to do the same thing for the library directories, using -L.
Solution 2
That error occur due to error in path
-L/home/yourpath/ffmpeg_build/lib/
-I/home/yourpath/ffmpeg_build/include/
ffmpeg_build – Where the files will be built and libraries installed.
Example :
create file "execute.sh "
NOW open file and paste the following code :
g++ -Wno-format-zero-length -Wno-write-strings -L/home/yourpath/ffmpeg_build/lib/ -I/home/yourpath/ffmpeg_build/include/ -o output program.cpp -lavcodec -lavformat -lavutil -lavdevice -lswresample -lswscale -lm -lva -lpthread -lvorbis -lvpx -lopus -lz -lpostproc -ldl -lfdk-aac -lmp3lame -lvorbisenc -lvorbisfile -lx264 -ltheora -ltheoraenc -ltheoradec -ldl -lrt -lx265 -lbz2
and type: sh execute.sh and binary will be created in the name "output" then type ./output for output.
Note : above for C++ , for c code change g++ to gcc
Solution 3
It depends how you install your ffmpeg. Generally, you can compile and install with 3 steps:
- ./configure --prefix=/yourpath/ffmpeg
- make
- make install
If you configured without "--prefix" parameter, it is installed at your default path.(on my Ubuntu, I found ffmpeg has been installed at "/usr/local/")
After install ffmpeg correctly, you may use following command to compile your code:
gcc testFfmpeg.c -I/yourpath/ffmpeg/include/ -L/yourpath/ffmpeg/lib/
or
gcc testFfmpeg.c -I/usr/local/include/ -L/usr/local/lib/
user1625271
Updated on April 23, 2020Comments
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user1625271 about 4 years
I'm trying to execute tutorial01.c using gcc and I have the gcc and tutorial01.c in the same folder along with libavcodec and libavformat and its associated files it gives me this error
fatal error: libavcodec/avcodec.h no such file or directory compilation terminated
when I run
gcc -o tutorial01 tutorial01.c -lavformat -lavcodec -lz
through the terminal in ubuntu 12.04the code is
#include libavcodec/avcodec.h #include libavformat/avformat.h #include stdio.h void SaveFrame(AVFrame *pFrame, int width, int height, int iFrame) { FILE *pFile; char szFilename[32]; int y; // Open file sprintf(szFilename, "frame%d.ppm", iFrame); pFile=fopen(szFilename, "wb"); if(pFile==NULL) return; // Write header fprintf(pFile, "P6\n%d %d\n255\n", width, height); // Write pixel data for(y=0; y<height; y++) fwrite(pFrame->data[0]+y*pFrame->linesize[0], 1, width*3, pFile); // Close file fclose(pFile); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { AVFormatContext *pFormatCtx; int i, videoStream; AVCodecContext *pCodecCtx; AVCodec *pCodec; AVFrame *pFrame; AVFrame *pFrameRGB; AVPacket packet; int frameFinished; int numBytes; uint8_t *buffer; if(argc < 2) { printf("Please provide a movie file\n"); return -1; } // Register all formats and codecs av_register_all(); // Open video file if(av_open_input_file(&pFormatCtx, argv[1], NULL, 0, NULL)!=0) return -1; // Couldn't open file // Retrieve stream information if(av_find_stream_info(pFormatCtx)<0) return -1; // Couldn't find stream information // Dump information about file onto standard error dump_format(pFormatCtx, 0, argv[1], 0); // Find the first video stream videoStream=-1; for(i=0; i<pFormatCtx->nb_streams; i++) if(pFormatCtx->streams[i]->codec->codec_type==CODEC_TYPE_VIDEO) { videoStream=i; break; } if(videoStream==-1) return -1; // Didn't find a video stream // Get a pointer to the codec context for the video stream pCodecCtx=pFormatCtx->streams[videoStream]->codec; // Find the decoder for the video stream pCodec=avcodec_find_decoder(pCodecCtx->codec_id); if(pCodec==NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Unsupported codec!\n"); return -1; // Codec not found } // Open codec if(avcodec_open(pCodecCtx, pCodec)<0) return -1; // Could not open codec // Allocate video frame pFrame=avcodec_alloc_frame(); // Allocate an AVFrame structure pFrameRGB=avcodec_alloc_frame(); if(pFrameRGB==NULL) return -1; // Determine required buffer size and allocate buffer numBytes=avpicture_get_size(PIX_FMT_RGB24, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height); buffer=(uint8_t *)av_malloc(numBytes*sizeof(uint8_t)); // Assign appropriate parts of buffer to image planes in pFrameRGB // Note that pFrameRGB is an AVFrame, but AVFrame is a superset // of AVPicture avpicture_fill((AVPicture *)pFrameRGB, buffer, PIX_FMT_RGB24, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height); // Read frames and save first five frames to disk i=0; while(av_read_frame(pFormatCtx, &packet)>=0) { // Is this a packet from the video stream? if(packet.stream_index==videoStream) { // Decode video frame avcodec_decode_video(pCodecCtx, pFrame, &frameFinished, packet.data, packet.size); // Did we get a video frame? if(frameFinished) { // Convert the image from its native format to RGB img_convert((AVPicture *)pFrameRGB, PIX_FMT_RGB24, (AVPicture*)pFrame, pCodecCtx->pix_fmt, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height); // Save the frame to disk if(++i<=5) SaveFrame(pFrameRGB, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height, i); } } // Free the packet that was allocated by av_read_frame av_free_packet(&packet); } // Free the RGB image av_free(buffer); av_free(pFrameRGB); // Free the YUV frame av_free(pFrame); // Close the codec avcodec_close(pCodecCtx); // Close the video file av_close_input_file(pFormatCtx); return 0; }