Error in building opencv with ffmpeg

Question

I installed ffmpeg according to this article. ffmpeg installation was ok. Now I build opencv with ffmpeg support and I have some errors. The errors are

/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp:1484:21: error: ‘CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER’ was not declared in this scope
         c->flags |= CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
                     ^
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp: In function ‘int icv_av_write_frame_FFMPEG(AVFormatContext*, AVStream*, uint8_t*, uint32_t, AVFrame*)’:
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp:1512:30: error: ‘AVFMT_RAWPICTURE’ was not declared in this scope
     if (oc->oformat->flags & AVFMT_RAWPICTURE) {
                              ^
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp: In member function ‘void CvVideoWriter_FFMPEG::close()’:
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp:1686:35: error: ‘AVFMT_RAWPICTURE’ was not declared in this scope
         if( (oc->oformat->flags & AVFMT_RAWPICTURE) == 0 )
                                   ^
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp: In member function ‘bool CvVideoWriter_FFMPEG::open(const char*, int, double, int, int, bool)’:
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp:1920:32: error: ‘AVFMT_RAWPICTURE’ was not declared in this scope
     if (!(oc->oformat->flags & AVFMT_RAWPICTURE)) {
                                ^
In file included from /home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg.cpp:45:0:
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp: In static member function ‘static AVStream* OutputMediaStream_FFMPEG::addVideoStream(AVFormatContext*, AVCodecID, int, int, int, double, AVPixelFormat)’:
/home/coie/Softwares/Libraries/opencv-2.4.13.3/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp:2214:25: error: ‘CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER’ was not declared in this scope
             c->flags |= CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
                         ^
modules/highgui/CMakeFiles/opencv_highgui.dir/build.make:230: recipe for target 'modules/highgui/CMakeFiles/opencv_highgui.dir/src/cap_ffmpeg.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [modules/highgui/CMakeFiles/opencv_highgui.dir/src/cap_ffmpeg.cpp.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2349: recipe for target 'modules/highgui/CMakeFiles/opencv_highgui.dir/all' failed

What could be wrong?

Answer 1

My solution is to grep the missing defines (2 in total) from FFmpeg by using grep -r which leads to the following code found in libavcodec/avcodec.h:

#define AV_CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER (1 << 22)
#define CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER AV_CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER
#define AVFMT_RAWPICTURE 0x0020

Copy and paste it to the top of:

opencv-3.3.0/modules/videoio/src/cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp

Compile and everything works even with the latest sources

Answer 2

Easiest change for the CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER is to change it to AV_CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER, it was redefined in a newer version.

Note the "AV_" in front