This guide is based on a minimal CentOS installation and will install FFmpeg with several external encoding libraries. This guide is kept relatively up to date with FFmpeg development and library sources (see the page history for changelog), and should also work for recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora.
Preparation
Remove any existing packages:
# yum erase ffmpeg x264 x264-devel
Get the dependencies:
# yum install autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ git libtool make nasm pkgconfig wget zlib-devel
Make a source directory:
mkdir ~/ffmpeg-source
Installation
Yasm
Yasm is an assembler used by x264 and FFmpeg.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd yasm-1.2.0
./configure
make
# make install
x264
H.264 video encoder.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264
cd x264
./configure --enable-static --enable-shared
make
# make install
libfdk_aac
AAC audio encoder.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac.git
cd fdk-aac
autoreconf -fiv
./configure --disable-shared
make
# make install
LAME
MP3 audio encoder.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gz
cd lame-3.99.5
./configure --disable-shared --enable-nasm
make
# make install
libogg
Required for libtheora and libvorbis.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf libogg-1.3.0.tar.gz
cd libogg-1.3.0
./configure --disable-shared
make
# make install
libtheora
Theora video encoder.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd libtheora-1.1.1
./configure --disable-shared
make
# make install
libvorbis
Vorbis audio encoder.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz
cd libvorbis-1.3.3
./configure --disable-shared
make
# make install
libvpx
VP8 video encoder.
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
git clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
cd libvpx
./configure
make
# make install
FFmpeg
cd ~/ffmpeg-source
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264
make
# make install
Compilation is now complete and ffmpeg should now be ready to use. The rest of this guide shows how to update or remove FFmpeg.
Updating x264, libvpx, and FFmpeg
First uninstall x264, libvpx, and FFmpeg:
cd ~/ffmpeg-source/x264
# make uninstall
cd ~/ffmpeg-source/ffmpeg
# make uninstall
cd ~/ffmpeg-source/libvpx
# make uninstall
Update x264
cd ~/ffmpeg-source/x264
make distclean
git pull
Then run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install x264 section.
Update libvpx
cd ~/ffmpeg-source/libvpx
make clean
git pull
Then run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install libvpx section.
Update FFmpeg
cd ~/ffmpeg-source/ffmpeg
make distclean
git pull
Then run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install FFmpeg section.
Reverting changes made by this guide
cd ~/ffmpeg-source/yasm-1.2.0
# make uninstall
cd ../x264
# make uninstall
cd ../lame-3.99.5
# make uninstall
cd ../libogg-1.3.0
# make uninstall
cd ../libvorbis-1.3.3
# make uninstall
cd ../libvorbis-1.3.3
# make uninstall
cd ../libvpx
# make uninstall
cd ../ffmpeg
# make uninstall
rm -rf ~/ffmpeg-source
# yum erase autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ git libtool make nasm pkgconfig wget zlib-devel
This entry was posted in Centos, FFmpeg on April 30, 2013.