Recently decided to take advantage of some ffmpeg new latest features on an Ubuntu system. Here’s what had to be done to get it ready.
First, install all the necessary Ubuntu packages.
aptitude install git-core nasm libswscale-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libvorbis-dev libtheora-dev liblame-dev liblame0 libgsm1-dev libgsm-tools libgsm1 libfaad2-dev libfaac-dev libgpac-dev libxvidcore4-dev liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libdc1394-13-dev
Then, make a location for the source and export the newest stuff!
cd /usr/src git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git cd x264 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-pthread --enable-shared --enable-mp4-output --enable-pic make make install mkdir /usr/src/ffmpeg-trunk cd /usr/src svn export svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg-trunk cd ffmpeg-trunk ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-swscale --enable-pthreads --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --disable-debug --extra-version 'edoceo' make
Now there is this custom ffmpeg stored in /usr/src/ffmpeg-trunk/. If it fails you’ll need to search for the necessary -dev package with apt-cache search libXXX
I choose to leave it here, notice I did not indicate to run make install. This means I have Ubuntu standard ffmpeg in the path, as the distribution expects it and the custom stuff stays out of the main system. Just have to remember the full path every time.
The ffmpeg that is built will not have some of it’s lib files installed in an expected location (because we left off the make install). So we’ll have to sym-link them into place
cd /usr/src/ffmpeg-trunk ln -s libswscale/libswscale.so.0 ./ ln -s libavdevice/libavdevice.so.52 ./ ln -s libavformat/libavformat.so.52 ./ ln -s libavcodec/libavcodec.so.52 ./ ln -s libavutil/libavutil.so.49 ./
Then run this custom ffmpeg as follows
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/src/ffmpeg-trunk" /usr/src/ffmpeg-trunk/ffmpeg [options] [outfile]
Another option, common for us is to specify a new prefix, such as --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg-trunk then install there.