This is my installation guide to install FFMPEG and all the latest apps, and you can blind follow it, and at the end, you will get an FFMPEG server with all related apps.
As you know, the new FFMPEG versions like Angel, Happiness, or Freedom don’t have ffmpeg-php module support. So to be on the safe side, we will be installing the SVN version “SVN-r26402”.
FFMPEG official download site here ( You can see the latest versions here, but as I said before, we will be installing – “SVN-r26402” )
Atomic Repo ( Because you are going to install a bunch of apps and modules, and your default repo probably don’t have it at all )
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh
Install git ( We will need it for installing the “x264” library )
# Add the repository
rpm -Uvh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/latest.rpm
# Install the latest version of git
yum install --enablerepo=webtatic git-all
if not working, try the below ( If you are installing it under the cPanel system. You will get some dependency error, and that is because cPanel, by default, have some packages in the “yum exclude” list )
yum --disableexcludes=main --enablerepo=webtatic install git-all
Make our system ready
Yes, before you install FFMPEG, we need to make your system ready for this. So let’s install some required libraries and compilation tools.
yum install pkgconfig nasm gcc.x86_64 gcc-c++.x86_64 php-gd.x86_64 ruby php-devel.x86_64
Note: If your system is 32bit. Remove that “.x86_64” from the above packages.
Let’s start the installation
mkdir /opt/FFMPEG; cd /opt/FFMPEG
Download the packages given below. If some links are not working, the developers may change the path or they stopped that version. Sourceforge uses to change the URL frequently. Common, you have Google and ask where you can find that app 
svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg or svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2 wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.5.tar.gz wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.3.2.tar.gz wget http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/faac/faad2-src/faad2-2.7/faad2-2.7.tar.gz wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/faac/faac-src/faac-1.28/faac-1.28.tar.gz wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/libraw1394/libraw1394/libraw1394-2.0.5.tar.gz wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/libdc1394/libdc1394-2/2.2.0/libdc1394-2.2.0.tar.gz wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/opencore-amr/opencore-amr/opencore-amr-0.1.3.tar.gz wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2 wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.0.tar.gz wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.gz wget http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/files/openjpeg-1.5.0.tar.gz
Download x264
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/x264.git
do not try unless git doesn’t work out >> ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/x264/snapshots/last_x264.tar.bz2 git clone
http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
Untar the packages
tar -xvf *.bz2&& tar -xvf *.tbz2&& tar -xvf *.bz2
Configure the supporting modules and applications
Install Yasam
cd yasm-1.2.0 ./configure make make install
Setting up Mplayer codec
cd .. mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs cp ./essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/ chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/
For 64 Bit Systems ALSO do this:
mkdir /usr/local/lib64/codecs/ cp ./essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib64/codecs/ chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib64/codecs/
Configure x264
cd x264 ./configure --enable-shared make make install cd ..
( if git not working. download this and compile >> wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20080630-2245.tar.bz2
Configure xvidcore
cd xvidcore/build/generic ./configure make make install cd ../../../
Configure Lame
cd lame-3.99.5 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure a52dec
cd a52dec-0.7.4 ./configure --enable-shared=PKGS make make install cd ..
Configure Faad
cd faad2-2.7 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure Faac
cd faac-1.28 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure Libraw
cd libraw1394-2.0.5 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure Libdc
cd libdc1394-2.2.0 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure OpencoreAMR
cd opencore-amr-0.1.3 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure Libogg
cd libogg-1.3.0 ./configure make make install cd .. echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf; ldconfig
Configure Libvorbis
cd libvorbis-1.3.3 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure Libtheora
cd libtheora-1.1.1 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure Flvtools
cd flvtool2-1.0.6 ruby setup.rb config ruby setup.rb setup ruby setup.rb install
Configure OPenJPEG
cd openjpeg-1.5.0 ./configure make make install cd ..
Configure MP4box
yum install freetype-devel.x86_64 SDL-devel.x86_64 freeglut-devel.x86_64
Note: If your system is 32bit. Remove that “.x86_64” from the above packages.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/custom-libs.conf ldconfig
Configure ffmpeg ( Yes. At last let’s configure and install FFmpeg )
cd ffmpeg ./configure --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --disable-ffplay --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-nonfree --enable-avfilter --enable-pthreads --enable-libopenjpeg
( When configuring if you get some errors regarding unsupported features, remove that from the above and recompile. Also so let me know the error and we will find a solution )
make make install
Configure FFMPEG-PHP module
cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
For version 0.6.0 copy & paste each line given below separately to fix a typo in the framer function:
vi ffmpeg_frame.c :%s/PIX_FMT_RGBA32/PIX_FMT_RGB32 :wq
Now continue with the compilation.
phpize ./configure make make install cd ..
Add the module details in the php.ini file
your php.ini maybe somewhere else
Find it by running the below command.
php -i | grep php.ini vim php.ini
Add the line:
extension=ffmpeg.so
Restart Apache.
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Install Mplayer
./configure make make install
Verify the working
ffmpeg php -i | grep ffmpeg php -m | grep ffmpeg which ffmpeg which lame which mencoder which mplayer which faac which faad which x264 which a52dec which flvtool2
So this is how you install FFMPEG and all related apps.
