diff -p -up blender-2.49/config/linux2-config.py.ffmpeg blender-2.49/config/linux2-config.py
--- blender-2.49/config/linux2-config.py.ffmpeg	2009-03-31 10:13:21.000000000 +0200
+++ blender-2.49/config/linux2-config.py	2009-04-10 11:28:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -132,11 +132,11 @@ WITH_BF_BINRELOC = True
 
 # enable ffmpeg  support
 WITH_BF_FFMPEG = True  # -DWITH_FFMPEG
-BF_FFMPEG = '#extern/ffmpeg'
-BF_FFMPEG_LIB = ''
+#BF_FFMPEG = '#extern/ffmpeg'
+#BF_FFMPEG_LIB = ''
 # Uncomment the following two lines to use system's ffmpeg
-# BF_FFMPEG = '/usr'
-# BF_FFMPEG_LIB = 'avformat avcodec swscale avutil avdevice'
+BF_FFMPEG = '/usr'
+BF_FFMPEG_LIB = 'avformat avcodec avutil'
 BF_FFMPEG_INC = '${BF_FFMPEG}'
 BF_FFMPEG_LIBPATH='${BF_FFMPEG}/lib'