Compiling and installing `ffmpeg` with Decklink support on Ubuntu Server

Compiling and installing `ffmpeg` with Decklink support on Ubuntu Server.md

Compiling and installing ffmpeg with Decklink support on Ubuntu Server

• Download Desktop Video (driver) & Desktop Video SDK from https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/capture-and-playback

• Install Desktop Video (driver)

  tar -xf Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Linux_*.tar
  cd Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Linux_*/deb/x86_64/
  sudo dpkg -i desktopvideo_*.deb
  sudo apt-get install -f
  BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater status
  # if prompted to update, perform an update:
  BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater update 0
  # if prompted to shutdown, reboot the device:
  sudo reboot

  • Unzip Desktop Video SDK

  sudo apt install unzip
  unzip Blackmagic_DeckLink_SDK_*.zip
  mkdir -p ~/ffmpeg_sources ~/bin
  cp -r Blackmagic\ DeckLink\ SDK\ */Linux/ ~/ffmpeg_sources/BMD_SDK

• Follow ffmpeg compilation instruction at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu

  • Install dependencies

    sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get -y install \
      autoconf \
      automake \
      build-essential \
      cmake \
      git-core \
      libass-dev \
      libfreetype6-dev \
      libgnutls28-dev \
      libmp3lame-dev \
      libsdl2-dev \
      libtool \
      libva-dev \
      libvdpau-dev \
      libvorbis-dev \
      libxcb1-dev \
      libxcb-shm0-dev \
      libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
      meson \
      ninja-build \
      pkg-config \
      texinfo \
      wget \
      zlib1g-dev

    sudo apt-get -y install \
      nasm yasm libx264-dev libx265-dev libnuma-dev libvpx-dev \
      libfdk-aac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopus-dev libunistring-dev \
      libdav1d-dev libssl-dev libzmq5

  • libzmq

  cd ~/ffmpeg_sources && \
  git -C libzmq pull 2> /dev/null || git clone https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq.git && \
  mkdir -p libzmq/build && \
  cd libzmq/build && \
  cmake -DENABLE_STATIC=ON -DENABLE_SHARED=OFF \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
    .. && \
  make && \
  make install

  • libsvtav1

  cd ~/ffmpeg_sources && \
  cd ~/ffmpeg_sources && \
  git -C SVT-AV1 pull 2> /dev/null || git clone https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1.git && \
  mkdir -p SVT-AV1/build && \
  cd SVT-AV1/build && \
  PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_DEC=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF .. && \
  PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make && \
  make install

  • libsrt

  cd ~/ffmpeg_sources && \
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Haivision/srt.git && \
  mkdir -p srt/build && \
  cd srt/build && \
  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
        -DENABLE_C_DEPS=ON \
        -DENABLE_SHARED=OFF \
        -DENABLE_STATIC=ON \
      .. && \
  make && \
  make install

  • libaom

  cd ~/ffmpeg_sources && \
  git -C aom pull 2> /dev/null || git clone --depth 1 https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom && \
  mkdir -p aom_build && \
  cd aom_build && \
  PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" -DENABLE_TESTS=OFF -DENABLE_NASM=on ../aom && \
  PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make && \
  make install

• Get ffmpeg source code and configure it.

    cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
    wget -c https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-7.0.tar.bz2
    tar -xvf ffmpeg-*.tar.bz2
    cd ffmpeg-*/
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
      --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
      --pkg-config-flags="--static" \
      --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include -I$HOME/ffmpeg_sources/BMD_SDK/include" \
      --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
      --extra-libs="-lpthread -lm" \
      --ld="g++" \
      --bindir="$HOME/bin" \
      --enable-gpl \
      --enable-libaom \
      --enable-libass \
      --enable-libfdk-aac \
      --enable-libfreetype \
      --enable-libharfbuzz \
      --enable-libfontconfig \
      --enable-libfribidi \
      --enable-libzmq \
      --enable-libmp3lame \
      --enable-libopus \
      --enable-libsvtav1 \
      --enable-libdav1d \
      --enable-libvorbis \
      --enable-openssl \
      --enable-libvpx \
      --enable-libx264 \
      --enable-libx265 \
      --enable-libsrt \
      --enable-nonfree \
      --enable-decklink

  Note the addition of --enable-decklink and BlackMagicDesign SDK in --extra-cflags.

• Compile and install it.

    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make -j `nproc`
    sudo cp ffmpeg ffprobe /usr/local/bin/