FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. This tutorial will help you to install FFMPEG on cPanel / CensOS server.
Install FFMPEG
Update rpmforge
for 32 bit OS versions:
wget http://downloads.naulinux.ru/pub/SLCE/6x/i386/CyrEd/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.1.el6.i686.rpm rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.1.el6.i686.rpm
for 64 bit OS versions:
wget http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Please click on the button to see how to install rpmforge on other CentOS versions: Here
Install utilities
RedHat/Centos:
yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools"
or
yum install zlib-devel automake autoconf gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran gcc-c++ mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXi-devel libXmu-devel freeglut-devel freeglut libtool ncurses-devel
Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install build-essential
Add below entry in /etc/ld.so.conf
vim /etc/ld.so.conf
add the following:
/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
ldconfig
libogg
libogg contains necessary functionality to create, decode, and work with Ogg bitstreams. Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.2.2.tar.gz tar zxvf libogg-1.2.2.tar.gz cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.2.2 ./configure && make clean && make && make install ldconfig
libvorbis
Libvorbis is the reference implementation of the Vorbis codec. It is the lowest-level interface to the Vorbis encoder and decoder, working with packets directly.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz tar zxvf libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz cd libvorbis-1.3.3 ./configure && make clean && make && make install
Yasm
Yasm is an assembler and disassembler for the Intel x86 architecture. It can be used to write 16-bit, 32-bit (IA-32) and 64-bit (x86-64) programs.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz tar zfvx yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz cd yasm-1.2.0 ./configure && make && make install
libx264
x264 is a free software library and application for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression format, and is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
cd /usr/local/src wget https://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/last_stable_x264.tar.bz2 tar jxf last_stable_x264.tar.bz2 cd x264-* ./configure --enable-shared && make clean && make && make install
amr
The Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR or AMR-NB or GSM-AMR) audio codec is an audio compression format optimized for speech coding. AMR speech codec consists of a multi-rate narrowband speech codec that encodes narrowband (200–3400 Hz) signals at variable bit rates ranging from 4.75 to 12.2 kbit/s with toll quality speech starting at 7.4 kbit/s.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opencore-amr/opencore-amr/0.1.2/opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz tar zxf opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz cd opencore-amr-0.1.2 ./configure && make clean && make && make install
neroAacEnc
neroAacEnc is Improved multichannel encoding and Multipass encoding, Solved issue with very long files and -2pass.
cd /usr/local/src wget wget http://ftp6.nero.com/tools/NeroAACCodec-1.5.1.zip unzip -j NeroAACCodec-1.5.1.zip install -m 0755 neroAacEnc /usr/bin/ yum -y install gpac
mediainfo
MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-0.4.29-1.x86_64.CentOS_6.rpm rpm -ivh libzen0-0.4.29-1.x86_64.CentOS_6.rpm wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/files/binary/libmediainfo0/0.7.64/libmediainfo0-0.7.64-1.x86_64.CentOS_6.rpm rpm -ivh libmediainfo0-0.7.64-1.x86_64.CentOS_6.rpm wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/files/binary/mediainfo/0.7.64/mediainfo-0.7.64-1.x86_64.CentOS_6.rpm rpm -ivh mediainfo-0.7.64-1.x86_64.CentOS_6.rpm
faac
FAAC or Freeware Advanced Audio Coder is a software project which includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports MPEG-2 AAC as well as MPEG-4 AAC.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.28.tar.gz tar zxvf faac-1.28.tar.gz cd /usr/local/src/faac-1.28 ./configure && make clean && make && make install
Please note that you may receive an error like below:
mpeg4ip.h:126: error: new declaration ‘char* strcasestr(const char*, const char*)’
/usr/include/string.h:369: error: ambiguates old declaration ‘const char* strcasestr(const char*, const char*)’
make[3]: *** [3gp.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/faac-1.28/common/mp4v2′
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/faac-1.28/common’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/faac-1.28′
make: *** [all] Error 2
You can resolve it by removing the content “char *strcasestr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);” in the file /usr/local/src/faac-1.28/common/mp4v2/mpeg4ip.h from line 126. Then you need to run the following command again.
./configure && make && make install
lame
LAME is a program which can be used to create compressed audio files. (Lame ain’t an MP3 encoder). These audio files can be played back by popular MP3 players such as mpg123 or madplay.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.98.4/lame-3.98.4.tar.gz tar zxvf lame-3.98.4.tar.gz cd lame-3.98.4 ./configure && make clean && make && make install
flvtool2
FLVTool2 is a manipulation tool for Macromedia Flash Video files (FLV).
cd /usr/local/src wget ftp://mirror.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/extra-14.2/source/multimedia/flvtool2/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz tar -zxvf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2-1.0.6/ ruby setup.rb config && ruby setup.rb setup && ruby setup.rb install
If you have not installed ruby on your server, please run following command.
/scripts/installruby (For cPanel)
yamdi
yamdi stands for Yet Another MetaData Injector. It adds the onMetaData event to your FLV files.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/yamdi/yamdi/1.9/yamdi-1.9.tar.gz tar zxvf yamdi-1.9.tar.gz cd yamdi-1.9 gcc yamdi.c -o yamdi -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=647 cp yamdi /usr/bin/
Install FFmpeg
FFMPEG is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of free software / open source libraries. It includes libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, and libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library.
cd /usr/local/src mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.7.11.tar.gz tar xzf ffmpeg-0.7.11.tar.gz cd ffmpeg-0.7.11 make distclean ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac make clean && make && make install make tools/qt-faststart cp tools/qt-faststart /usr/local/bin/ ldconfig
MPLAYER (MENCODER)
MENCODER is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20110131.tar.bz2 tar jxvf all-20110131.tar.bz2 mv /usr/local/src/all-20110131 /usr/local/lib/codecs/ chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/ mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2 tar jxf MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2 cd MPlayer-1.0rc4 make clean ./configure && make && make install && ldconfig
Install FFMPEG -PHP
FFMPEG-PHP is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files.
cd /usr/local/src wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php/0.6.0/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 tar jxf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ sed -i 's#PIX_FMT_RGBA32#PIX_FMT_RGB32#' ./ffmpeg_frame.c phpize ./configure && make clean && make && make install
If you are getting the error “make: *** [ffmpeg_movie.lo] Error 1”, you need to change the following on the file “ffmpeg_movie.c”
row 311: list_entry *le; to zend_rsrc_list_entry *le;
row 346: list_entry new_le; to zend_rsrc_list_entry new_le;
row 360: hashkey_length+1, (void *)&new_le, sizeof(list_entry), to hashkey_length+1, (void *)&new_le,sizeof(zend_rsrc_list_entry),
Then run the following commands again.
phpize ./configure && make clean && make && make install
Add extension of ffmpeg in php.ini file.
vim /usr/local/lib/php.ini
add the following.
extension=ffmpeg.so
The last step is to check all installed modules.
php -m | grep ffmpeg which php ffmpeg mplayer mencoder flvtool2 yamdi MP4Box neroAacEnc mediainfo
