ffmpeg installation centos

Install FFmpeg on CentOS or RedHat EL 6.x

The following install steps have been proven to work on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.2. You can check which version you are running with

cat /etc/redhat-release
Additionally, we assume that you are connected and registered with the Red Hat network and/or updated the system with the latest updates from the repositories.

Follow this guide step by step!

Install the additional repo

rpm -Uhv http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Update repository

yum -y update
Install all necessary packages

yum install SDL-devel a52dec a52dec-devel alsa-lib-devel faac faac-devel faad2 faad2-devel
yum install freetype-devel giflib gsm gsm-devel imlib2 imlib2-devel lame lame-devel libICE-devel libSM-devel libX11-devel
yum install libXau-devel libXdmcp-devel libXext-devel libXrandr-devel libXrender-devel libXt-devel
yum install id3tag-devel libogg libvorbis vorbis-tools mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel xvidcore xvidcore-devel zlib-devel
yum install amrnb-devel amrwb-devel
yum install libtheora theora-tools
yum install glibc gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake libtool
yum install ncurses-devel
yum install libdc1394 libdc1394-devel
yum install yasm nasm
yum install libvpx*
yum install git-core
yum install opencore-amr-devel
Install the essential codecs

wget http://www8.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20110131.tar.bz2
bunzip2 all-20110131.tar.bz2; tar xvf all-20110131.tar

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mkdir /usr/local/lib64/codecs/
cp all-20110131/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
cp all-20110131/* /usr/local/lib64/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib64/codecs/
Install LibOgg

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
make
make install
Install Libvorbis

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
make
make install
Install Libtheora

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
make
make install
Install Libvpx

git clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
cd libvpx
./configure --enable-shared --extra-cflags=-fPIC
make
make install
Install Aacenc

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/opencore-amr/vo-aacenc-0.1.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf vo-aacenc-0.1.2.tar.gz
cd vo-aacenc-0.1.2
./configure --enable-shared
make
make install
Install X264

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
./configure --enable-shared --extra-cflags=-fPIC --extra-asflags=-D__PIC__
make
make install
Note: (Sometimes the network might be down. Then you can also grab it via wget at ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/last_stable_x264.tar.bz2)

Configure Libraries

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/
echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/custom-libs.conf
ldconfig
Compile FFmpeg (the configure options have to be on one line)

git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
cd ffmpeg
git checkout n1.2
./configure --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libvpx --enable-libfaac \
--enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libxvid --disable-ffplay \
--enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-nonfree --enable-avfilter --enable-pthreads --extra-cflags=-fPIC
make
make install
(The --arch=x86_64 option should only be used if you are on a 64Bit System!)

You can also use their Github repository at https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git.

That's it. This should give you a full functional FFMpeg installation for Razuna. Test it now with;

ffmpeg
This should give you the following back (yours might vary a bit);

FFmpeg version SVN-r20525, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-libfaad --enable-avfilter
--enable-pthreads --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac
--disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libtheora
--enable-libvorbis --disable-ffplay --enable-shared
libavutil 50. 4. 0 / 50. 4. 0
libavcodec 52.39. 0 / 52.39. 0
libavformat 52.39. 2 / 52.39. 2
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1. 8. 0 / 1. 8. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
Try to convert a movie with;

ffmpeg -i movie.mov -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -acodec libfaac movie.mp4

http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/CentosCompilationGuide

http://wiki.razuna.com/display/ecp/FFMpeg+Installation+on+CentOS+and+RedHat