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 I have added this here because so many of the blogs with information regarding Ffmpeg and CentOS 5 were out of date or wrong.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

Published

gregory

on April 11, 2008

in Projects and Servers & Hosting

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aharwood 4 months ago 1 point
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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?

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retry 3 months ago 1 point
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I get the EXACT same error on Centos 4.6

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retry 3 months ago 1 point
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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?

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gregory 3 months ago 1 point
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@ retry

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

Some of this has been discussed there

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retry 3 months ago 1 point
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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.

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