Install ffmpeg on AWS Linux AMI

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sudo su -

cd /usr/local/bin
mkdir ffmpeg

cd ffmpeg
wget http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/64bit/ffmpeg.static.64bit.latest.tar.gz
tar -xzf ffmpeg.static.64bit.latest.tar.gz

ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg
exit

Change the wget and tar lines to the following and it should work.

wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz
tar -xf ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz

Thank you!
But how to check whether its installed or not.
When I try to run ffmpeg command.
Its showing bash: ffmpeg: command not found

Try whereis ffmpeg If you get a response of ffmpeg: /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg then it's probably a directory change required e.g.

cd /user/local/bin/ffmpeg/
sudo mv ffmpeg-3.4.2-64bit-static/* .

Now the command ffmpeg should work.

It would be great if the script could do this no matter the version number in the middle of this folder

wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz

404 not found

https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg
This guy tired to support it.

You might have to install from source. To do this, you'll need yasm.

yum install yasm

then you'll want to wget the file here: https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2

You can unzip it as such: tar -vxjf ./ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2

then finally make it as described here: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Type ./configure to create the configuration. A list of configure options is printed by running configure --help.

configure can be launched from a directory different from the FFmpeg sources to build the objects out of tree. To do this, use an absolute path when launching configure, e.g. /ffmpegdir/ffmpeg/configure.

Then type make to build FFmpeg. GNU Make 3.81 or later is required.

Type make install to install all binaries and libraries you built.

Hope this helps!