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I am trying to build VLC player on Ubuntu 14.04.

It's been a tough road but I am learning along the way. However I am really stuck with this lib libavcodec that is required as prompted by this message.

configure: error: Requested 'libavcodec >= 57.16.0' but version of libavcodec is 54.35.0. Pass --disable-avcodec to ignore this error.

What I don't understand is why apt does not have libavcodec above 54. Is this a common issue where libs are updated, but not on apt? If so how do I got about getting the version I need?

Thomas
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Well, for 14.04, only libavcodec54 is available. You can choose to ignore the error by following the suggested route, i.e Pass --disable-avcodec to ignore this error. You can also try installing libavcodec-dev and see if it is working.

Ron
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