ffmpeg usually includes ffplay when you build it. However if you don’t have sdl installed, the build script will skip it.
On Ubuntu 10.10, you won’t have a problem. But if you’re a Mac OS user using a minimalist package manager like Brew, you have to fetch sdl yourself.
brew install sdl
brew install ffmpeg
That should give you ffplay.
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yeah! great tip. i wish i had seen this before a manage to install ffmpeg on osx lion. i’ll fight and re-install ffmpeg after installing sdl first! ffmpeg is very tricky on osx lion. llvm vs clang…