Compile ardrone SDK on ubuntu 12.04 -- error on video_codec/video_stage_ffmpeg_recorder

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04(precision pangolin) on my Mac OS X lion. As I would like to play with Parrot AR. Drone quadcopter platform, I have to install AR. Drone SDK firstly. Due to my colleague has made this SDK compile straight away on Ubuntu 11.10, I thought the same story happen on Ubuntu 12.04. Unfortunately, I encounter some video codec and recorder issue from ffmpeg and some library missing issue(e.g., libcwiid1.dev) .

Here I listed several issues I encounter when I compile this SDK on Ubuntu 12.04 as following:

In file included from ../../VLIB/../VLIB/video_controller.h:5:0,

from ../../VLIB/../VLIB/video_codec.h:4,

from ../../VLIB/video_codec.c:1:

../VP_Api/vp_api_picture.h:16:30: fatal error: libavutil/avutil.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

make[4]: *** [../../Soft/Build/targets_versions/ffmpeg_Intel_PROD_MODE_Linux_3.2.0-24-generic-pae_GNU_Linux_gcc_4.6.3/video_codec.o] Error 1

make[3]: *** [all] Error 2

make[2]: *** [build_vlib] Error 2

make[1]: *** [all] Error 2

make: *** [build_libs] Error 2

Then I followed this link (https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/UbuntuCompilationGuide) to install ffmepg, and then compile SDK again. It seems like the above error is gone. However, I got the following error.

In file included from ../..//Soft/Lib/ardrone_tool/Video/video_stage_ffmpeg_recorder.c:43:0:
/usr/local/include/libavfilter/avfilter.h:992:19: fatal error: audio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make4: *** [../../Soft/Build/targets_versions/ardrone_lib_PROD_MODE_ffmpeg_Intel_Linux_3.2.0-24-generic_GNU_Linux_gcc_4.6.3/ardrone_tool/Video/video_stage_ffmpeg_recorder.o] Error 1
make3: *** [all] Error 2
make2: *** [build_lib] Error 2
make1: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [build_libs] Error 2

When I double check the ffmpeg library in my system, I found there are two identical header files about ffmepg in my system. One is under /usr/include/libavformat, the other is /usr/local/include/libavformat. By carefully comparing, they have different size even though their names are exactly the same. The one under /usr/include should be the latest one which are created when you follow the above ffmpeg link, while the other under /usr/local/include should be come with system. I just overwrite the system one by the latest one.

sudo cp -rf /usr/include/libavformat /usr/local/include

And then compile the SDK again, it passed the compilation. Hopefully it would help you as well.

By the way, if it keeps prompt you to install libcwiid1.dev when you are compilling, you can go to open ardrone_SDK/ARDroneLib/Soft/Build/check_dependencies.sh and then subtitute the libcwiid1.dev to libcwiid.dev, which works for me.