Installs latest ffmpeg on Centos 6

latest-ffmpeg-centos6.sh

# source: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CentosCompilationGuide

yum install autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ git libtool make nasm pkgconfig zlib-devel

mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O 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 --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin"
make
make install
make distclean
. ~/.bash_profile

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 https://git.videolan.org/git/x264.git
cd x264
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --enable-static
make
make install
make distclean

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac.git
cd fdk-aac
autoreconf -fiv
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
make
make install
make distclean

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -L -O 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 --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --disable-shared --enable-nasm
make
make install
make distclean

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/opus/opus-1.0.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf opus-1.0.3.tar.gz
cd opus-1.0.3
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
make
make install
make distclean

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libogg-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd libogg-1.3.1
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
make
make install
make distclean

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz
cd libvorbis-1.3.3
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --with-ogg="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
make
make install
make distclean

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx
cd libvpx
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-examples
make
make install
make clean

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd libtheora-1.1.1
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --with-ogg="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-examples --disable-shared --disable-sdltest --disable-vorbistest
make
make install
make distclean

yum -y install freetype-devel speex-devel

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --extra-libs="-ldl" --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libfreetype --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora
make
make install
make distclean
hash -r
. ~/.bash_profile

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg/tools
make qt-faststart
cp qt-faststart /usr/bin
ldconfig
cd

Thanks so much. I was stuck forever trying to add repos and rpms that don't exist anymore and was not looking forward to compiling. Saved me lots of time!

Thank you very much, your script helped me a lot. However I could not run it as a whole (unless I ran it as root). I had to split it in several parts and run some of them as root. Those include the calls to yum as well as the two last commands (cp qt-faststart /usr/bin; ldconfig). I also had to initially create a .tmp folder in my home directory and bind it to an environment variable named TMPDIR. After those few adjustments, everything worked fine. My environment is a CentOS 6.7 64 bits server.

kindly add flag :: --enable-shared

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Works for me. CentOS 7. Thank you!

My Nasm is out of date 2.10 cant find on google how to update to latest which is 2.14

curl -L

need -L option, some url has moved

If you see similar errors as shown below when compiling libvpx:

vp9/common/x86/vp9_subpixel_8t_ssse3.asm:1002: error: invalid combination of opcode and operands
make[1]: *** [vp9/common/x86/vp9_subpixel_8t_ssse3.asm.o] Error 1
make: *** [.DEFAULT] Error 2

It's because NASM is complaining about some problematic mnemounics, instead use yasm:

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx
cd libvpx
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-examples
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" make
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" make install
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" make clean

However, even after I've managed to compile everything, and followed the entire script down to the last bit using new URLs for some of the libs (both make and make install worked on ffmpeg)
I still cannot run ffmpeg, it says command not found, any ideas?

Hi,

can I ask if this will update ffmpeg to version 2.8 and higher? I have 2.5x and need to have at least 2.8.
Secondly, do I just paste the entire code above into Putty SSH and it will install? If not, is there any kind of 'idiots guide' for upgrading?

Kind regards

Hi,
I am getting this error
ERROR: libmp3lame >= 3.98.3 not found

I tried "&& require "libmp3lame >= 3.98.3" lame/lame.h lame_set_VBR_quality -lmp3lame -lm" at the end of the config string.
Please help me.
regards

This is not available:
git clone --depth 1 git://git.videolan.org/x264
Use this:
git clone --depth 1 http://git.videolan.org/git/x264

Thanks a lot for the script.

I have the following error after running it:
ERROR: opus not found using pkg-config
Would really appreciate some help..

Please change "curl -O " to "wget " and "tar xzvf" to "tar -xvf"

libvpx enabled but no supported decoders found
centos 6 i386