HOWTO Install FFMPEG

FFMPEG INSTALLATION FROM SOURCE
FFMPEG INSTALLATION FROM SOURCE
installed by:
Robertas Dereskevicius
Edited by Jon Nikolakakis
OS/ Fedora Core 5

Summary
download and install:
libffac
libffad2
xvid
libogg,libvorbis
mp3lame
ffmpeg

Setting Up Install Folder, Logging and download Packages
1)Log into ssh
2) cd /usr/src && mkdir install && cd install
3) Download faad2 and faac
from http://faac.sourceforge.net/oldsite/download.php get Faad2 and faac (new versions)

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/f...ar.gz?download
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/f...ar.gz?download

4) Verify that you have these components are installed
rpm -qa automake
rpm -qa autoconf
rpm -qa libtool
rpm -qa m4
rpm -qa gcc-c++

If any are missing than simply yum install (packagename), if you dont have a package manager than get one, it will save you alot of time
and headaches.

Installing Faac
5)tar -zxvf faac-1.24.tar.gz && cd faac
6) sh bootstrap
7) ./configure
8) make
9) make install
10) cd ..

Installing Faad2
11) tar -zxvf faad2-2.0.tar.gz
12) cd faad2 && less README.linux
13) There is 2 bugs with this package, so need to manually edit these files
14) nano Makefile.am
Edit the file to look like this
SUBDIRS = libfaad common frontend plugins
EXTRA_DIST = faad2.spec

15) cd common/mp4ff && nano mp4ffint.h
16) Comment out this line
//void mp4ff_track_add(mp4ff_t *f);

17)Save file and cd ../..
18)autoreconf -vif
19) ./configure
20) make
21) make install

Installing Libogg and Libvorbis
22)cd .. and then Check to see if libogg and libvorbs
rpm -qa libogg-devel
rpm -qa libvorbis-devel
rpm -qa libncurses-devel

If not installed then simply Package Install (replace yum and install settings with your package manager)
yum install libogg-devel
yum install libvorbis-devel
yum install libncurses-devel

Installing LAME (for audio)
23)go into lame sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...package_id=309
24)wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...me-3.97.tar.gz
25)tar -zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
26)cd lame*
27) ./configure; make;make install

Installing Xvid
28) cd .. && wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/...e-1.1.2.tar.gz
29)tar -zxvf xvidcore-1.1.2.tar.gz && cd xvid*/build/generic/
30) ./configure; make; make install;
31) cd ../../..

Installing ffmpeg
32) rpm -q subversion If not install, then install subversion
33)svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg && cd ffmpeg
34) ./configure --enable-shared --enable-xvid --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-a52
35)make
36)make install

If Installation went ok, run
ldd ./ffmpeg
If Path to Lib Libraries are not ok

37)Check to see if /usr/local/lib exists on this file
cat /etc/ld.so.conf

If not
echo /usr/local/lib >>/etc/ld.so.conf

38) cat/etc/ld.so.conf Now check to see if (/usr/local/lib exist)
39) save file
40) ldconfig
41) run ldd ./ffmpeg

FFmpeg should be complete and installed. On some servers you may need to add Disable Shared and enable flags.