How to debug FFMPEg Installation Errors

I spent almost 4-5 days dealing with FFMPeg issues at my video website. FFMPeg was not getting installed properly on my server and was fetching many errors and warning during configuration. Finally I managed to installed it successfully with following steps.

Please make sure to remove or uninstall all your previous installations

yum remove ffmpeg x264 faad2 faad2-devel

yum install gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool yasm git subversion

yum install zlib-devel libmad-devel libvorbis-devel libtheora-devel lame-devel faac-devel-devel xvidcore-devel freetype-devel

FAAD2 Installation

=> cd ~

=> wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faad2-2.6.1.tar.gz

=> tar xzvf faad2-2.6.1.tar.gz

=> cd faad2

=> autoreconf -vif

=> ./configure

=> make

=> make install

GPAC Installation

=> cd ~

=> wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gpac/gpac-0.4.4.tar.gz

=> tar -xzvf gpac-0.4.4.tar.gz

=> cd gpac

=> ./configure

=> make

=> make install

=> make install-lib


Note :- if the compile fails with a osmozilla related error, Update the links to the shared libs

=> echo '/usr/local/lib/' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gapc-1386.conf

=> ldconfig

Install x264

=> cd ~

=> git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git

=> cd x264

=> ./configure  --enable-pthread --enable-mp4-output --enable-shared

=> make

=> make install

***Install FFMPEG :-

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library.

=> cd ~

=> svn export svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

=> cd ffmpeg

=> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-debug --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-liba52 --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-libvorbis --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame

=> make

=> make install


**Very Important :-

If ffmpeg has problems finding shared libraries, set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

=> echo 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH' >> /etc/ld.so.conf

=> ldconfig

It is more than enough to run Video Streaming website...However you can install Mplayer and Mencoder as follows.

Mplayer & Codecs Installation :-

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.

=> wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc3.tar.bz2

=> tar xjvf  MPlayer-1.0rc3.tar.bz2

=> cd MPlayer-1.0rc3/

=> ../configure

=> make

=> make install

Codec Installation

=> wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2

=> tar xjvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2

=> mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/

=> mv essential-20071007/ /usr/local/lib/codecs/

=> chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

NOTE:-

In case if you are still facing problem with Video Player or Video Upload at your video website you can contact us. Our charges are only $ 40 which includes installation of all necessary Codecs and Modules for video streaming, Video Thumbnail creation and fine tuning etc..

** Suraj Consulting Charges :- $ 40

Compare with other service providers charges

Clip-Share charges :- $ 50

Graphx Charges :- $50

HostGator Charges :- $ 75