ffmpeg SVN-r20562 statically linked and compiled for Linux (compiled with Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)) for use with encode-handheld.pl.

Includes documentation on how to compile your own static ffmpeg if you like and configure and configure.mak used.

linked against x264:

:~# x264 --version
x264 0.78.1318 fe83a90
built on Nov 21 2009, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)



:~/ffmpeg-r20562-static-binary-and-steps# ./ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version SVN-r20562, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  built on Nov 21 2009 14:51:30 with gcc 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --enable-libspeex --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3 --enable-bzlib --enable-static --disable-shared --extra-libs=-static --extra-cflags=--static
  libavutil     50. 4. 0 / 50. 4. 0
  libavcodec    52.41. 0 / 52.41. 0
  libavformat   52.39. 2 / 52.39. 2
  libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
FFmpeg SVN-r20562
libavutil     50. 4. 0 / 50. 4. 0
libavcodec    52.41. 0 / 52.41. 0
libavformat   52.39. 2 / 52.39. 2
libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0



:~/ffmpeg-r20562-static-binary-and-steps# file ffmpeg
ffmpeg: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, statically linked, stripped



:~/ffmpeg-r20562-static-binary-and-steps# ldd ffmpeg
        not a dynamic executable