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

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!