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 I have added this here because so many of the blogs with information regarding Ffmpeg and CentOS 5 were out of date or wrong.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.