Install FFMPEG on Linux

FFmpeg is a simple open source application that allows Linux users to convert video files easily between a variety of different formats. It supports most industry-standard codecs and can convert from one file format to another quickly and easily. It also lets you capture video and audio from a live source and process it.

Requirements:
FFMPEG
LAME Mp3 Audio Codec (Requred for mpg, flv, avi, wmv etc files)
AMR Audio Codec (Required for 3gp video files)
XVID Audio Codec (Required for Divx video files)
FFMPEG - PHP (Extension for using FFMPEG in PHP)

Note:
All the Audio Codecs getting used in FFMPEG are not part of FFMPEG Source base.
All the download files are source code will need to:
configure
make
make install

FFMPEG Download URL:
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html

On the download page apart from the SVN they have also given download to the checkout-snapshot but i would suggest to use SVN source code base.

The url for the SVN source code for FFMPEG is:

svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk

To download from SVN you will have to install subversion for Linux located at subversion.tigris.org, or you can use "TortoiseSVN" for Windows located at tortoisesvn.tigris.org.

LAME Mp3 Download URL:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php

AMR Audio Download URL:
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr
To install the AMR codec you will require both AMR-WB and AMR-NB files.

XVID Audio Download URL:
http://www.xvid.org/

Installation Steps:
It is a good practice to install all the external liraries first and then install the main files. i.e. For FFMPEG to work smoothly it's a best practice to install all the Audio Codec Libraray first.

Installing LAME MP3 Encoder

• Untar the lame file bu using tar zxvf


• Assign 777 permission rights to the lame folder by typing
  chmod 777 -R>


• Traverse to the root of lame folder and type>
  Step1:
  ./configure ---> Creates Make File
  Step2:
  make
  Step3:
  make install

Installing AMR Codec:

For installing the AMR codec there are two separate files that needs to be installed are AMR-WB and AMR-NB.

• Untar the AMR file bu using tar zxvf


• Assign 777 permission rights to the amr folder by typing
  chmod 777 -R


• Traverse to the root of amr folder and type
  Step1:
  ./configure ---> Creates Make File
  Step2:
  make
  Step3:
  make install

Installing Xvid Codec

• Untar the xvid file bu using tar zxvf


• Assign 777 permission rights to the lame folder by typing
  chmod 777 -R


• Traverse to the root of xvid folder


• Goto Build/generic folder from the root of xvid folder and type
  Step1:
  ./configure ---> Creates Make File
  Step2:
  make
  Step3:
  make install

Installing GCC

This is reqired as the SVN for FFMPEG is not compatible with the existing version of GCC(3x) requires a new version for the same. Installed GCC version 4.2

After the installation of GCC need to convert all the files of SVN to Unix compatible by using command "dos2unix".

Installing FFMPEG:

• Unzip the ffmpeg file bu using unzip command in linux shell


• Assign 777 permission rights to the ffmpeg folder by typing
  chmod 777 -R


• Traverse to the root of ffmpeg folder and type
  Step1:
  ./configure ---> Creates Make File
  Step2:
  make
  Step3:
  make install

NOTE:
You might get installation error while making the file related to html or texti files in doc folder.
Solution for this is to just create a empty file by using touch command.