Failed to build gem native extension while installing rmovie gem - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to install rmovie gem on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS. ffmpeg is installed but I'm getting this error:
$ gem install rmovie
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rmovie:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/home/ror_dev/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin/ruby extconf.rb
gcc -c -fpic -g qp_movie.c -o qp_movie.o
In file included from qp_movie.c:4:0:
qp_util.h:4:28: fatal error: ffmpeg/avcodec.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [qp_movie.o] Error 1
checking for avcodec_init() in -lavcodec... yes
checking for av_register_all() in -lavformat... yes
checking for quadrupel_init() in -lquadrupel... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/home/ror_dev/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin/ruby
--with-ffmpeg-dir
--without-ffmpeg-dir
--with-ffmpeg-include
--without-ffmpeg-include=${ffmpeg-dir}/include
--with-ffmpeg-lib
--without-ffmpeg-lib=${ffmpeg-dir}/lib
--with-quadrupel-dir
--without-quadrupel-dir
--with-quadrupel-include
--without-quadrupel-include=${quadrupel-dir}/include
--with-quadrupel-lib
--without-quadrupel-lib=${quadrupel-dir}/lib
--with-avcodeclib
--without-avcodeclib
--with-avformatlib
--without-avformatlib
--with-quadrupellib
--without-quadrupellib
extconf failed: need quadrupel library
First attempt was to relocate avcodec to where installer is searching for it. No success. Next - correcting paths in quadrupel files to point it to where avcodec is located. No success.
What is this quadrupel thing and how to force it to work?
Or maybe there is some replacement for rmovie?

Answer 1

Use github.com/streamio/streamio-ffmpeg, it is more actively developed. rmovie was developed in 2006 and it may not be compatible with the current version of ffmpeg

Answer 2

Do like this -
1) Keep the gem in a gemfile -
gem "rmovie", "~> 0.5.1"
2) Run bundle install
If still get errors try:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-52
If package not found try:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53
you can also try to install the libmp3lame0 package:
sudo apt-get install libmp3lame0