Compile FFmpeg on Ubuntu, Debian, or Mint, or Centos 6,7
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This guide for supported releases of Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint will provide a local install of the latest FFmpeg tools and libraries including several external encoding and decoding libraries (codecs). This will not provide a system installation and therefore will not interfere with repository packages. Recent static builds are also available for lazy people or those who are unable to compile.
Get the Dependencies
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sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential git libass-dev libgpac-dev \ libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev \ libxext-dev libxfixes-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources
- Server users can omit the ffplay and x11 dependencies: libsdl1.2-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev.
- Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid users will need to install the git-core package instead of the git package. Lucid lacks the package libva-dev. This can be ignored.
Compilation & Installation
One advantage to compiling is that you can build ffmpeg to your liking. If you do not require certain encoders you may skip the relevant section and then remove the appropriate ./configureoption in FFmpeg. For example, if libopus is not needed, then skip that section and then remove --enable-libopus from the Install FFmpeg section.
Yasm
Yasm is an assembler used by x264 and FFmpeg.
Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, and Mint 15 users can alternatively install the yasm package from the repository instead of compiling.
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources 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 --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" make make install make distclean . ~/.profile
x264
H.264 video encoder. See the x264 Encoding Guide for more information and examples.
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources git clone --depth 1 git://git.videolan.org/x264.git cd x264 ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --enable-static make make install make distclean
Note: You can download the nightly x264 source snapshot as an alternative to using git.
fdk-aac
AAC audio encoder. See the AAC Encoding Guide for more information and examples.
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources git clone --depth 1 git://git.code.sf.net/p/opencore-amr/fdk-aac cd fdk-aac autoreconf -fiv ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared make make install make distclean
Note: You can download a fdk-aac source snapshot as an alternative to using git.
libmp3lame
MP3 audio encoder.
Most users can install the repository package:
sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev
Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian Squeeze users must compile:
sudo apt-get install nasm cd ~/ffmpeg_sources wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.5.tar.gz tar xzvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gz cd lame-3.99.5 ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --enable-nasm --disable-shared make make install make distclean
libopus
Opus audio decoder and encoder.
Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, and Mint 15 users can alternatively install the libopus-dev package from the repository instead of compiling.
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/opus/opus-1.0.3.tar.gz tar xzvf opus-1.0.3.tar.gz cd opus-1.0.3 ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared make make install make distclean
libvpx
VP8/VP9 video encoder and decoder. See the vpx (WebM) Encoding Guide for more information and examples.
Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, and Mint 15 users can alternatively install the libvpx-dev package from the repository instead of compiling.
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources git clone --depth 1 http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git cd libvpx ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-examples make make install make clean
Note: You can download a libvpx source snapshot as an alternative to using git.
ffmpeg
Note: Server users should remove --enable-x11grab from the following command:
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources git clone --depth 1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg cd ffmpeg PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" export PKG_CONFIG_PATH ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \ --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \ --bindir="$HOME/bin" --extra-libs="-ldl" --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac \ --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx \ --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-x11grab make make install make distclean hash -r . ~/.profile
Note: You can download the nightly FFmpeg source snapshot as an alternative to using git.
Finish
- Installation is now complete and ffmpeg is now ready for use. See the x264 Encoding Guide for examples.
- If you do not see FFmpeg developers in your ffmpeg console output then something went wrong and you’re probably using the fake “ffmpeg” from the repository.
- HTML formatted documentation is available in ~/ffmpeg_build/share/doc/ffmpeg.
- You can keep the ffmpeg_sources directory if you plan on updating later. See Updating FFmpeg below for more details followed by instructions for reverting all changes made by this guide.
Updating FFmpeg
Development of FFmpeg is active and an occasional update can give you new features and bug fixes. First, remove (or move) the old files and then update the dependencies:
rm -rf ~/ffmpeg_build ~/bin/{ffmpeg,ffprobe,ffserver,vsyasm,x264,yasm,ytasm}
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential git libass-dev libgpac-dev \
libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev \
libxext-dev libxfixes-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev
Note: Server users can omit: libsdl1.2-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev.
x264
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources/x264 make distclean git pull
Now run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install x264 section.
fdk-aac
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources/fdk-aac make distclean git pull
Now run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install fdk-aac section.
libvpx
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources/libvpx make clean git pull
Now run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install libvpx section.
ffmpeg
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg make distclean git pull
Now run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install FFmpeg section.
Reverting Changes Made by This Guide
To remove ffmpeg, x264, and dependencies installed for this guide:
rm -rf ~/ffmpeg_build ~/ffmpeg_sources ~/bin/{ffmpeg,ffprobe,ffserver,vsyasm,x264,yasm,ytasm}
sudo apt-get autoremove autoconf automake build-essential git libass-dev libgpac-dev \
libmp3lame-dev libopus-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libva-dev libvdpau-dev \
libvorbis-dev libvpx-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev texi2html zlib1g-dev
hash -r
Step : Install the Nux Dextop YUM repo
There are no official FFmpeg rpm packages for CentOS for now. Instead, you can use a 3rd-party YUM repo, Nux Dextop, to finish the job.
On CentOS 7, you can install the Nux Dextop YUM repo with the following commands:
sudo rpm --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
For CentOS 6, you need to install another release:
sudo rpm --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
Step : Install FFmpeg and FFmpeg development packages
sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel -yIf You Need Help
Feel free to ask questions at the #ffmpeg IRC channel or the ffmpeg-user mailing list.