random lines I found it useful to run in the terminal in linux before compiling blender with ffmpeg

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sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev libfaad-dev libfaac-dev libxvidcore4-dev liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libx264-dev libdts-dev libswscale-dev checkinstall build-essential subversion


sudo apt-get install build-essential scons yasm subversion

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