FFmpeg-2.3.3

Installation of FFmpeg

Install FFmpeg by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/-lflite"/-lflite -lasound"/' configure &&
./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --enable-gpl         \
            --enable-version3    \
            --enable-nonfree     \
            --disable-static     \
            --enable-shared      \
            --disable-debug      \
            --enable-libass      \
            --enable-libfdk-aac  \
            --enable-libmp3lame  \
            --enable-libtheora   \
            --enable-libvorbis   \
            --enable-libvpx      \
            --enable-libx264     \
            --enable-x11grab     &&
make &&
gcc tools/qt-faststart.c -o tools/qt-faststart

HTML documentation was built in the previous step if texi2html is installed. If the HTML was built (check for any .html files in the doc directory) and you have texlive-20140525 installed and wish to build PDF and Postscript versions of the documentation, issue the following commands:

sed -i '$s/$/\n\n@bye/' doc/{git-howto,nut,fate}.texi             &&
sed -i '/machine:i386/ s/\\/@backslashchar{}/g' doc/platform.texi &&

pushd doc &&
for DOCNAME in `basename -s .html *.html`
do
    texi2pdf -b $DOCNAME.texi &&
    texi2dvi -b $DOCNAME.texi &&
    dvips -o    $DOCNAME.ps   \
                $DOCNAME.dvi
done                          &&
popd                          &&
unset DOCNAME

If you have Doxygen-1.8.8 installed and wish to create the API documentation (takes about 350 MB of space), issue the command doxygen doc/Doxyfile.

To properly test the installation you must have rsync-3.1.1 installed and follow the instructions for the FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment (FATE). First, about 872 MB of sample files used to run FATE are downloaded with the command:

make fate-rsync SAMPLES=fate-suite/

The fate-suite directory is created and the files are downloaded there. That command actually runs rsync -vrltLW --timeout=60 --contimeout=60 rsync://fate-suite.ffmpeg.org/fate-suite/ fate-suite/ command, thus you may want to compress and keep this directory for testing again, in another system, or when a new version of ffmpeg is launched. Then, you unpack the sample files in the source directory, and run, again, the make command above, to sync with the repository. Now, the download size and time are drastically reduced. Estimated values in "Package Information" do not include the download SBU. Next, FATE is executed, with the commands (you obtain a number of tests greater than 1900):

make fate SAMPLES=fate-suite/ | tee ../fate.log &&
grep ^TEST ../fate.log | wc -l

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755    tools/qt-faststart /usr/bin &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg &&
install -v -m644    doc/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg

If HTML documentation was built, issue the following command to install it:

install -v -m644 doc/*.html \
                 /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg

If you used doxygen to create the API documentation, install it (another 300 MB of space) by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/api                       &&
cp -vr doc/doxy/html/* /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/api                    &&
find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/api -type f -exec chmod -c 0644 "{}" ";" &&
find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/api -type d -exec chmod -c 0755 "{}" ";"