ODROID XU4 ========== product: http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php distro : Ubuntu 12.04.5 uname : Linux odroid02 3.10.82 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 2 19:59:44 BRT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux gcc : 4.6.3-1ubuntu5 Prerequisites ============= Remove libav: $ apt-get remove libavcodec53 libavformat53 $ apt-get remove libswscale2 $ apt-get remove libavutil51 $ apt-get remove libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev Get a recent ffmpeg: ffmpeg-2.8.6 Review your CFLAGS: $ echo $CFLAGS And change/set accordingly: $ export CFLAGS="-mfpu=neon -march=armv7 -ftree-vectorize -mvectorize-with-neon-quad -O3" Build ffmpeg: $ ./configure --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-neon --prefix=/usr $ make -j8 $ sudo make install Configuring veejay ================== $ sh autogen.sh $ ./configure $ make -j8 $ sudo make install When you run veejay, you can see if NEON optimizations are built-in: > I: Using SIMD NEON optimized memcpy()