Just try to find documentation on this … absolute nightmare is an understatement, so here are my notes of the steps I took to compile ffmpeg with a selection of codecs:


up2date automake autoconf libtool
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.26.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faad2-2.6.1.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.98b6.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0beta2.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20080805-2245.tar.bz2


NOTE: The above are current at the time of writing, check for more recent versions at the relevant sites.

Extract:


for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xzvf "$i"; done
for i in *.tar.bz2; do tar -xjvf "$i"; done


cd to relevant directories and run the following:

faac & faad2: ./bootstrap && ./configure && make && make install
xvidcore: cd build/generic; ./configure && make && make install
libx264: ./configure –enable-shared –disable-asm && make && make install
The rest: ./configure && make && make install

NOTE: You must install libogg prior to libvorbis and libtheora

The following is required otherwise ffmpeg will display errors about being unable to find libraries:

i.e.


ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file


FIX:


echo '/usr/local/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/buzz-saiweb.conf
ldconfig


You must run “ldconfig” any time you install a new lib you want to use with ffmpeg!

Install FFMPEG

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

make install


NOTE: If you allready havea checkout of ffmpeg and run an update to get the latest code, make sure you run


make distclean


Prior to running the configure line.

et voila job done ….