ffserver/ffmpeg from squeeze repos?

Hello everyone:

I'm hoping you all can help me find out a good solution to this. I've been playing around with Debian on the Dockstar (or DoD as I've started calling it, don't know if that's an official name or whatever) and I am trying to get a webcam to work to try and change a dockstar into an IP-camera.

I've done some research and it looks like I'll need FFserver and ffmpeg along with some other utilities to make it all work. That's not my problem.

The issue is that issuing "apt-get install ffmpeg" results in some version of FFMPEG getting installed however any attempts to run it, even "ffmpeg -v" or "ffmpeg --version" results in an "illegal instruction.

I even went so far and installed GDB so I could check to see if it's coredumping or whatnot however the result was the same. Since I have an 8GB stick and I originally partitioned it for 512M, I'm having to reinstall the Debian OS again (this time with more space. :P ) but I am wondering if it would be better to install the needed GCC compiler and libs and compile ffmpeg directly.

Anyone else tried this? Am I apt-getting the wrong package somewhere? Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

FIRESTORM_v1

Hi firestorm_v1,

had the same problem on my sheevaplug (ffserver -> illegal instruction). I also thought building ffmpeg, but it was easier:

Insert this in your sources.list

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main

You'll also need the keyring, it's on their site.

Then just apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade and it updates ffmpeg (and a few libraries), no more illegal instruction.

Cheers,
radu