FFmpeg-6.1

Installation of FFmpeg

First, apply a patch that adds an API necessary for some packages to build:

patch -Np1 -i ../ffmpeg-6.1-chromium_method-1.patch

Install FFmpeg by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --enable-gpl         \
            --enable-version3    \
            --enable-nonfree     \
            --disable-static     \
            --enable-shared      \
            --disable-debug      \
            --enable-libaom      \
            --enable-libass      \
            --enable-libfdk-aac  \
            --enable-libfreetype \
            --enable-libmp3lame  \
            --enable-libopus     \
            --enable-libtheora   \
            --enable-libvorbis   \
            --enable-libvpx      \
            --enable-libx264     \
            --enable-libx265     \
            --enable-openssl     \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1 &&

make &&

gcc tools/qt-faststart.c -o tools/qt-faststart

HTML documentation was built in the previous step. If you have texlive-20230313 installed and wish to build PDF and Postscript versions of the documentation, issue the following commands:

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-1.9.8 installed and you wish to build (if --disable-doc was used) or rebuild the html documentation, issue:

doxygen doc/Doxyfile

The fate-suite tests include comparisons with installed files, and should not be run before the package is installed. Therefore, if you desire to run them, instructions are given further below.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755    tools/qt-faststart /usr/bin &&
install -v -m755 -d           /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1 &&
install -v -m644    doc/*.txt /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1

If the PDF and Postscript documentation was built, issue the following commands, as the root user, to install them:

install -v -m644 doc/*.pdf /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1 &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.ps  /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1

If you used doxygen to manually create the API documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1/api                     &&
cp -vr doc/doxy/html/* /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1/api                  &&
find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1/api -type f -exec chmod -c 0644 \{} \; &&
find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-6.1/api -type d -exec chmod -c 0755 \{} \;

To properly test the installation you must have rsync-3.2.7 installed and follow the instructions for the FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment (FATE). First, about 1 GB 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 an rsync command to obtain the sample files. You may want to compress and keep this directory for testing again, for testing in another system, or for when a new version of ffmpeg is released. Then, unpack the sample files in the source directory, and run the make fate-rsync ... command above to sync with the upstream repository. The download size and time are drastically reduced by doing this. Estimated values in "Package Information" do not include the download SBU. Some samples may have been removed in newer versions, so in order to be sure local and server fate samples are identical when you use previously saved samples, run the following command:

rsync -vrltLW  --delete --timeout=60 --contimeout=60 \
      rsync://fate-suite.ffmpeg.org/fate-suite/ fate-suite/

Next, execute FATE with the following commands (there are more than 3800 tests in the suite):

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

where N is an integer, N ≤ number of cores in the system.

A successful run should return no errors or warnings, just a list of tests and total amount at the end.