FFMPEG Installation in linux

1. How to convert your videos using FFmpeg?

2. How to make ffmpeg run as ffmpeg command?

3. How to check ffmpeg is installed or not ?

4. The final step to install ffmpeg?

5. How to install Libvpx?

6. How to install x265?

7. How to install x264?

8. How to install libvorbis?

9. How to install Libopus?

10. How to install Libmp2lame?

11. How to install libfdk_aac?

12. How to install Libogg?

13. How to install YASM?

14. How to install NASM?

15. How to install the latest version of Nasm?

How to install FFmpeg in Linux ?

Initially, it was very frustrating installing FFmpeg on the server but after spending 2 days of hard work finally achieved it.

FFmpeg is a very useful command. It provides image, video and document conversion facility and also helps to edit them.

I have tried all methods existing on the internet and finally providing you the best solution:

Let’s start with its installation

First, we need to create the environment so that there should not be any confusion

sudo su

mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources

That will be created as cd /root/ffmpeg_sources

cd /ffmpeg_sources

For FFmpeg, we need different libraries for video conversion and audio conversion and these libraries run compiler “Nasm”. Nasm is needed to compile and install libraries. I suggest installing nasm latest version (currently the latest stable version is 2.31).

How to install the latest version of Nasm

Click here to install latest and standard way to install Nasm.

You need to install one more assembler which is very important “Yasm”

Follow the steps for Yasm installation

   cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O -L http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz
cd yasm-1.3.0
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin"
make
make install

Let’s now start libraries installation for ffmpeg

Basic Libraries

Libogg

Bitstream Library. Required by vorbis and theora.

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O -L http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf libogg-1.3.2.tar.gz
cd libogg-1.3.2
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
make
make install

For Audio conversion and Editing, we need

libfdk_aac

Audio encoder ( AAC requires –enalbe-nonfree and –enable-gpl )

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

Libmp2lame

Mp3 audio encoder

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O -L http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.100/lame-3.100.tar.gz
tar xzvf lame-3.100.tar.gz
cd lame-3.100
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --disable-shared --enable-nasm
make
make install

Libopus
Audio encoder and decoder

   cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O -L https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/opus/opus-1.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf opus-1.2.tar.gz
cd opus-1.2
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
make
make install

Libvorbis

Audio encoder. First, install ogg and then Vorbis

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O -L http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf libvorbis-1.3.5.tar.gz
cd libvorbis-1.3.5
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --with-ogg="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-shared
make
make install

For video conversion and editing we need

Video encoder x264

x264

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

Installation path will be /root/ffmpeg_build and /root/bin

Note: Sometime it will show that you need to install nasm >= 2.13 version.
Follow these steps to solve this issue

yum remove nasm && harh -r

Click here to install the latest version of nasm and more.

x265

This is also video encoder

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources/x265/build/linux
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" -DENABLE_SHARED:bool=off ../../source
make
make install

Libvpx
VP8/VP9 video encoder and decoder

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx.git
cd libvpx
./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --disable-examples --disable-unit-tests --enable-vp9-highbitdepth --as=yasm
make
make install

FFmpeg installation final step

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
curl -O -L https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
tar xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
--prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
--pkg-config-flags="--static" \
--extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
--extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
--extra-libs=-lpthread \
--bindir="$HOME/bin" \
--enable-gpl \
--enable-libfdk_aac \
--enable-libfreetype \
--enable-libmp3lame \
--enable-libopus \
--enable-libvorbis \
--enable-libvpx \
--enable-libx264 \
--enable-libx265 \
--enable-nonfree
make
make install
hash -r

OR    After installation of required libraries. We can also install FFmpeg with enable option with the respectively installed libraries.
Eample If we just need to install ffmpeg for audio conversion

PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
--prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
--pkg-config-flags="--static" \
--extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
--extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
--extra-libs=-lpthread \
--bindir="$HOME/bin" \
--enable-libfdk_aac \
--enable-libfreetype \
--enable-libmp3lame \
--enable-libopus \
--enable-libvorbis \
make
make install
hash -r

How to check FFmpeg is installed or not

Command to check ffmpeg and installed libraries

ffmpeg
/root/bin/ffmpeg
ffmpeg -h

How to make ffmpeg run as ffmpeg command

cd /usr/bin
vim ffmpeg
#!/bin/bash
/root/bin/ffmpeg

Now try to convert your videos,

Try with these examples

wget https://techouse.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/How-to-make-the-terminal-transparent-in-Linux-centos-7ubuntu.mp4?_=1
or
curl -O https://techouse.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/How-to-make-the-terminal-transparent-in-Linux-centos-7ubuntu.mp4?_=1

ffmpeg -i How-to-make-the-terminal-transparent-in-Linux-centos-7ubuntu.mp4 convert.webm

ffmpeg -i How-to-make-the-terminal-transparent-in-Linux-centos-7ubuntu.mp4 -vf drawtext="fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/lyx/cmmi10.ttf: \
text='Created by Chirag Thank You': fontcolor=white: fontsize=24: box=1: [email protected]: \
boxborderw=5: x=(w-text_w)/2: y=(h-text_h)/2" -codec:a copy wiz.mp4

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