FFMPEG Installation in /opt

ffmpeg_setup.sh

# The following notes detail the installation of ffmpeg from source, 
#  and installed to /opt, instead of the default locations.
# Target OS: Ubuntu 10.04

# This file is not intended to be run as a script, but should be
# seen as a rough guide, especially for dependency finding and
# configure options.

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential yasm git-core libtheora-dev libtheora0 \
  libvorbis-dev libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 vorbis-tools \
  libxvidcore-dev libxvidcore4 libtwolame-dev libtwolame0 \
  libdc1394-22-dev libdc1394-22 libavc1394-0  libraw1394-11 libraw1394-dev \
  libgsm1-dev libgsm1

mkdir ffmpeg_work
cd ffmpeg_work
wget http://faac.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/faac/faac/?view=tar -O faac.tar
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faad2-2.7.tar.bz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.98.4/lame-3.98.4.tar.gz
git clone --depth 1 git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
git clone --depth 1 git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git
git clone --depth 1 git://git.xiph.org/mirrors/ogg.git

sudo echo "/opt/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt.conf
sudo ldconfig

tar xzf lame-3.98.4.tar.gz 
cd lame-3.98.4
./configure --prefix=/opt
make && sudo make install
cd ..

cd ogg/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt
make && sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

tar xzvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd libtheora-1.1.1
./configure --prefix=/opt --with-ogg=/opt
make && sudo make install
cd ..

tar xf faac.tar
cd faac/
./bootstrap && ./configure --with-mp4v2  --enable-shared  --prefix=/opt
make && sudo make install
cd ..

tar xjf faad2-2.7.tar.bz2
cd faad2-2.7/
./configure --with-mp4v2  --enable-shared  --prefix=/opt
make && sudo make install
cd ..

cd x264
./configure --prefix=/opt --enable-pthread --enable-shared
make && sudo make install
cd ..
sudo ldconfig

cd ffmpeg
./configure --prefix=/opt --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads \
  --enable-postproc --disable-debug \
  --extra-ldflags=-L/opt/lib --extra-cflags=-I/opt/include \
  --enable-libvorbis  --enable-libtheora --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libgsm  \
  --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libxvid  --enable-libx264   
make && sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

# Be sure to Add "/opt/bin" to your PATH, otherwise call /opt/bin/ffmpeg