Installing FFMPEG on CentOS 5

Published on April 11, 2008 in Projects and Servers & Hosting. Comments

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 I have added this here because so many of the blogs with information regarding Ffmpeg and CentOS 5 were out of date or wrong.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

  • aharwood
    WHen I try to compile I get the following error:

    In file included from libavdevice/v4l.c:32:
    /usr/include/linux/videodev.h:56: error: syntax error before "ulong"
    /usr/include/linux/videodev.h:72: error: syntax error before '}' token
    libavdevice/v4l.c: In function `grab_read_header':
    libavdevice/v4l.c:77: error: storage size of 'tuner' isn't known
    libavdevice/v4l.c:141: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to incomplete type `video_tuner'
    libavdevice/v4l.c:148: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to incomplete type `video_tuner'
    libavdevice/v4l.c:77: warning: unused variable `tuner'
    make: *** [libavdevice/v4l.o] Error 1



    Do you have any idea what the problem is?
  • retry
    I get the EXACT same error on Centos 4.6
  • retry
    So I decided to export an arbitrary revision number (14000), and it worked!

    So somewhere between 14000 and 15290 (HEAD as of this writing) something got BORKED. But what can you expect from a project with no stable releases?
  • @ retry

    you might try checking this post: http://gregorytomlinson.com/encoded/2008/06/11/...

    Some of this has been discussed there
  • retry
    Yeah but my problem wasn't related to trying to get extra codecs working. It's an error in some device code in the core ffmpeg. I was getting that error with a vanilla configuration.
  • sean
    commented out line 56 (ulong blah) and it compiled.

    can't tell you if it worked, though... and that's almost certainly the wrong way to fix it.
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