Install FFmpeg Tutorial

i recently wrote a tutorial on easily installing ffmpeg with just yum and without compiling from source packages.

Tutorial Link: see here

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root@server3 [~/ffmpeg-php-0.5.2.1]# ffmpeg --help
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --enable-libogg --enable-libtheora --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-liba52 --enable-liba52bin --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --disable-strip
libavutil version: 49.4.0
libavcodec version: 51.40.4
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on Jun 4 2007 11:02:12, gcc: 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)
ffmpeg: missing argument for option '--help'
root@server3 [~/ffmpeg-php-0.5.2.1]#




root@server3 [~/ffmpeg-php-0.5.2.1]# ./configure --with-ffmpeg=/usr/
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix... /usr/local
checking for PHP includes... -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/local/include/php
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.12.0 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for ffmpeg support... yes, shared
checking whether to force gd support in ffmpeg-php... no
checking for ffmpeg headers...
configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure ffmpeg is compiled as shared libraries using the --enable-shared option
root@server3 [~/ffmpeg-php-0.5.2.1]#



Wrong somewhere??

 

just try

instead of specifying --with-ffmpeg option. i think ffmpeg install path is wrong.

 

oh! just forgot to ask. did you use yum or compiled the ffmpeg from source??
If you have compiled, see this on how to fix this error.

 

If you get an error like: Make sure ffmpeg is compiled as shared libraries using the --enable-shared option




make sure you
yum install ffmpeg-devel


-Brian


Brian J. Brandon, CCNP
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