Install ffmpeg on AWS Linux AMI

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sudo su -

cd /usr/local/bin
mkdir ffmpeg

cd ffmpeg
wget https://www.johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/old-releases/ffmpeg-4.2.1-amd64-static.tar.xz
tar xvf ffmpeg-4.2.1-amd64-static.tar.xz
mv ffmpeg-4.2.1-amd64-static/ffmpeg .

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

https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

The link is changed https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz

Unfortunately, as ffmpeg is updated, the folder name inside the downloaded archive will change. This script is sadly useless for any sort of automated provisioning.

You may want to choose one of the older versions shown here, and hope they're not deleted over time. https://www.johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/old-releases/

thanks man it saved my ass...
for more newbies like me stumbling upon this please take care of editing script as following
1.) use new link specified in above comment and run line 9,10 accordingly to new link
2.) before executing line 11 , check existing directories ( run ls ) first to see whats the name of static ffmpeg folder by which it is saved,
(in my case it was ffmpeg-4.2.2-amd64-static ) ,then run line 11 accordingly.

Version: AWS EC2 Linux Instance x86_64 Node.js:
A few things that I needed to change. This was the most helpful article I have seen from numerous google searches to date.
1.) Changed tar xvf ffmpeg-X.X.X-amd64-static.tar.xz to tar -xf ffmpeg-X.X.X-amd64-static.tar.xz (fill in X.X.X with your static build version)
2.) Because I didn't get it right the first time, or second, etc. I believe I needed to override the symbolic link originally created? I added the command to do just that and now its working. ln -sfn /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Thank you for this. Why doesn't Amazon Linux provide this via a package manager like yum in amazon-linux-extras or epel? Is epel just for CentOS?

facing error while using ffmpeg

Input model at /usr/local/share/model/vmaf_v0.6.1.pkl cannot be read successfully.
Caught VmafException: Error loading model (.pkl): Trouble reading the file:/usr/local/share/model/vmaf_v0.6.1.pkl
[Parsed_libvmaf_0 @ 0x5d5aec0] libvmaf encountered an error, check log for details
Error while filtering: Invalid argument
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Invalid argument
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #1:0
Conversion failed!

Can someone help in this ?

Not here no. Perhaps ask in https://github.com/FFmpeg/

Use this, I modified this to fit our needs

wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz

mkdir ffmpeg-release-amd64-static

tar -xf ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz --strip-components=1 -C ffmpeg-release-amd64-static

rm -f ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz

ln -s /root/ffmpeg-release-amd64-static/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Nice find @RichardTMiles

Although I installed it @RichardTMiles way, it won't work with my php script.

Checked the script; everything seems to be ok.

@oharaandrew314 with the asterisk '*' you can get around the issue with varying version number

if [ ! -f /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg ]
then
  wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz
  tar xvf ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz
  mv ffmpeg-*-amd64-static/ff* /usr/local/bin/
fi

Thanks!

I am following @RichardTMiles but getting following error while building my docker file for aws lambda. I see the filename is correct though.

Step 8/17 : RUN mkdir ffmpeg-release-amd64-static
 ---> Running in 83ef215b8ad1
Removing intermediate container 83ef215b8ad1
 ---> d99b1fe0ce57
Step 9/17 : RUN tar -xf ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz --strip-components=1 -C ffmpeg-release-amd64-static
 ---> Running in 882c2087ead9
tar (child): xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
The command '/bin/sh -c tar -xf ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz --strip-components=1 -C ffmpeg-release-amd64-static' returned a non-zero code: 2

[Container] 2023/01/23 13:30:24 Command did not exit successfully docker build -t $IMAGE_REPO_NAME:$IMAGE_TAG . exit status 2

@akayalml Amazon Linux 2 doesn't have xz installed by default. You need to run yum install xz and tar -xf will work properly

Amazon Linux 2023 is out; one should upgrade as often as possible.

$ wget https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
$ cd ffmpeg
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ ffmpeg -version

This worked for me in 2024, Amazon Linux 2