FFmpeg examples README ---------------------- Both following use cases rely on pkg-config and make, thus make sure that you have them installed and working on your system. 1) Build the installed examples in a generic read/write user directory Copy to a read/write user directory and just use "make", it will link to the libraries on your system, assuming the PKG_CONFIG_PATH is correctly configured. 2) Build the examples in-tree Assuming you are in the source FFmpeg checkout directory, you need to build FFmpeg (no need to make install in any prefix). Then you can go into doc/examples and run a command such as PKG_CONFIG_PATH=pc-uninstalled make.