Ffmpeg Installation on RHEL 4
Just try to find documentation on this … absolute nightmare is an understatement, so here are my notes of the steps I took to compile ffmpeg with a selection of codecs:
up2date automake autoconf libtool
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.26.tar.gz
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faad2-2.6.1.tar.gz
wget https://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.98b6.tar.gz
wget https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0beta2.tar.gz
wget https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
wget https://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20080805-2245.tar.bz2
NOTE: The above are current at the time of writing, check for more recent versions at the relevant sites.
Extract:
for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xzvf "$i"; done
for i in *.tar.bz2; do tar -xjvf "$i"; done
cd to relevant directories and run the following:
faac & faad2: ./bootstrap && ./configure && make && make install xvidcore: cd build/generic; ./configure && make && make install libx264: ./configure –enable-shared –disable-asm && make && make install The rest: ./configure && make && make install
NOTE: You must install libogg prior to libvorbis and libtheora
The following is required otherwise ffmpeg will display errors about being unable to find libraries:
i.e.
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file
FIX:
echo '/usr/local/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/buzz-saiweb.conf
ldconfig
You must run “ldconfig” any time you install a new lib you want to use with ffmpeg!
Install FFMPEG
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libxvid --enable-shared --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-gpl --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264
make
make install
NOTE: If you allready havea checkout of ffmpeg and run an update to get the latest code, make sure you run
make distclean
Prior to running the configure line.
et voila job done ….