Installing FFmpeg from source on Debian Wheezy
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ffmpeg, debian, wheezy
I needed to encode videos with FFmpeg for my project recently, but found it is not compiled with codecs I needed by default. Here's a guide how to do that by hand.
Step 1 - Install dependecies
Install debian-multimedia repo by opening /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free deb-src http://deb-multimedia.org wheezy non-free
Next run the following to install the repository:
apt-get -y --force-yes install deb-multimedia-keyring; apt-get update
Then install required packages:
apt-get install subversion unzip frei0r-plugins-dev libdc1394-22-dev libfaac-dev \ libmp3lame-dev libx264-dev libdirac-dev libxvidcore-dev libfreetype6-dev \ libvorbis-dev libgsm1-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev \ libopenjpeg-dev librtmp-dev libschroedinger-dev libspeex-dev libtheora-dev \ libva-dev libvpx-dev libvo-amrwbenc-dev libvo-aacenc-dev libaacplus-dev libbz2-dev \ libgnutls-dev libssl-dev libopenal-dev libv4l-dev libpulse-dev libmodplug-dev \ libass-dev libcdio-dev libcdio-cdda-dev libcdio-paranoia-dev libvdpau-dev \ libxfixes-dev libxext-dev libbluray-dev
Next download and compile libxavs with the following:
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xavs/code/trunk xavs
cd xavs
./configure --enable-shared --disable-asm
make && make install
Step 2 - Install FFmpeg
Download source by issuing:
wget http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.1.1.tar.gz
Unzip it: tar zxf ffmpeg-2.1.1.tar.gz && cd ffmpeg-2.1.1
Next we configure it:
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads \ --enable-x11grab --enable-swscale --enable-version3 --enable-shared --disable-yasm \ --enable-filter=movie --enable-frei0r --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfaac \ --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid \ --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvorbis --enable-libgsm --enable-libopencore-amrnb \ --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp \ --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvpx \ --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libaacplus --enable-libxavs \ --enable-bzlib --enable-openssl --enable-gnutls --enable-openal --enable-libv4l2 \ --enable-libpulse --enable-libmodplug --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-vdpau --enable-libbluray
After it's done configuring, let's start compiling:
make && make install && ldconfig
After the commands are finished, you are done!
FFmpeg is now installed!