Monthly Archive for April, 2008

foto eBook presents Mike Berube

I am proud to announce another launch for foto eBook. Mike Berube recently joined the growing list of photographers to utilize foto eBook. In addition to Mike’s new site, you can also check out Kenneth Dickerman and Myles Little, both of whom are powering their sites with foto eBook.

Installing FFMPEG on CentOS 5

I recently had the need to install FfMpeg for a project I am working on. After Googling for some time I learned a little bit about the ffmpeg project. The most interesting thing I learned was their are no formal releases of the project. So I just downloaded it from SVN using the following command:

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

Then I just ran

./configure

In the directory I downloaded ffmpeg too, and finally

make && make install

That’s it, it was up and running in a few minutes. I have added this here because so many of the blogs with information regarding Ffmpeg and CentOS 5 were out of date or wrong. It also helps that my version of CentOS already had gcc and gcc-c++ installed, both of which are needed to compile these from their sources.

Update:

I have written a tutorial for a much more robust install of ffmpeg. Read: A Robust ffmpeg Install for CentOS 5.