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 ============= Ubuntu 12.04 comes with gcc 4.6, please update your gcc to version 4.7: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gcc-4.7 g++-4.7 $ sudo update-alternatives --remove gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.7 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.7 $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 40 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.6 $ sudo update-alternatives --config gcc 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()