FFMPEG is an open source application that allows you to convert video and audio files easily between a variety of different formats. It supports most industry-standard codec and can convert from one file format to another quickly and easily. This guide is intented for the installatiion of ffmpeg, ffmpeg-php, mplayer, mencoder, lame mp3 encoder, flvtool2, libVorbis, and libogg and tested on CentOS5 and RHEL3 systems with Cpanel.
To start:
Download MPlayer and Codes, FlvTool2, Lame, and ffmpeg-php:
MPlayer codecs (check for latest release ):
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wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2
MPlayer (check for latest release ):
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wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
FlvTool2 (check for latest release ):
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wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
Lame MP3 Encoder (check for latest release ):
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wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
FFMPEG-PHP (check for latest release ):
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wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.3.1.tbz2<
Extract downloaded files:
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tar -zxvf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
tar -zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
bunzip2 essential-20071007.tar.bz2; tar xvf essential-20071007.tar
bunzip2 MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2; tar xvf MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar
bunzip2 ffmpeg-php-0.5.3.1.tbz2; tar xvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.3.1.tar
Create and import the Codecs directory:
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mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mv essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -Rf 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/
Install Subversion and Ruby using Yum:
You may need to open SVN port 3690
If you’re on cPanel you can alternatively use /scripts/installruby
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yum install ncurses-devel
Get FFMPEG and MPlayer from SVN:
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svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
Install LAME:
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cd /usr/src/lame-3.97
./configure && make && make install
Install libOgg and libVorbis:
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yum install libogg.i386 libvorbis.i386 libvorbis-devel.i386
Install flvtool2:
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cd /usr/src/flvtool2-1.0.6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
Install MPlayer:
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cd /usr/src/MPlayer-1.0rc2
./configure && make && make install
Install ffMPEG:
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cd /usr/src/ffmpeg/
mkdir tmp
chmod 777 tmp
export TMPDIR=./tmp
./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared
echo '#define HAVE_LRINTF 1' >> config.h
make && make install
export TMPDIR=/tmp
Finalize the codec setup:
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ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51
You may get an error about a library path not being found, if so, run:
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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
Install FFMPEG-PHP:
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cd /usr/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure && make && make install
ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg
ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/bin/mplayer
Add extension to php.ini (find the correct php.ini file):
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[ffmpeg]
extension_dir=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/
extension=ffmpeg.so
Restart Apache and check that the module is loaded in PHP:
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/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Test ffmpeg from command line and if you get this errors:
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ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.51:...
execute: echo "/usr/local/lib" >>/etc/ld.so.conf and reload library cache with ldconfig -v
Verify ffmpeg installation:
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php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep ffmpeg
If you get the following results then FFMPEG and all it’s components are installed correctly:
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ffmpeg
ffmpeg support (ffmpeg-php) => enabled
ffmpeg-php version => 0.5.3.1
ffmpeg-php gd support => enabled
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
ffmpeg.show_warnings => 0 => 0