An Ansible playbook include for installing ffmpeg on Ubuntu

ffmpeg.yaml

---

- name: Install yasm
  shell: 'chdir=/tmp {{ item }} creates=/usr/local/bin/yasm'
  with_items:
    - 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 && make && make install && make distclean

- name: Install x264
  shell: 'chdir=/tmp {{ item }} creates=/usr/local/bin/x264'
  with_items:
    - wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/x264/snapshots/last_x264.tar.bz2
    - tar xjvf last_x264.tar.bz2
    - 'cd x264-snapshot*; PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" ./configure --enable-static && PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" make && make install && make distclean'

- name: Install AAC
  shell: 'chdir=/tmp {{ item }} creates=/usr/local/include/fdk-aac/'
  with_items:
    - wget -O fdk-aac.zip https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac/zipball/master
    - unzip fdk-aac.zip
    - cd mstorsjo-fdk-aac*; autoreconf -fiv
    - 'cd mstorsjo-fdk-aac*; ./configure --disable-shared && make && make install && make distclean'

- name: Install LAME
  shell: 'chdir=/tmp {{ item }} creates=/usr/local/bin/lame'
  with_items:
    - 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 --enable-nasm --disable-shared && make && make install && make distclean'

- name: Install Opus
  shell: 'chdir=/tmp {{ item }} creates=/usr/local/include/opus/'
  with_items:
    - wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/opus/opus-1.1.tar.gz
    - tar xzvf opus-1.1.tar.gz
    - 'cd opus-1.1; ./configure --disable-shared && make && make install && make distclean'

- name: Install VPX
  shell: 'chdir=/tmp {{ item }} creates=/usr/local/include/vpx/'
  with_items:
    - git clone https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/
    - 'cd libvpx; ./configure --disable-examples && make && make install && make clean'

- name: Install ffmpeg
  shell: 'chdir=/tmp {{ item }} creates=/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg'
  with_items:
    - wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
    - tar xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
    - 'cd ffmpeg; ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --extra-libs=-ldl && make && make install && make clean'

- name: Install iPod640 filter preset
  copy: src='libx264-ipod640.ffpreset' dest='/usr/local/share/ffmpeg/libx264-ipod640.ffpreset'