Get the Dependencies
1. Uninstall x264, libx264-dev, and ffmpeg if they are already installed. Open a terminal and run the following:
sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev
2. Next, get all of the packages you will need to install FFmpeg and x264 (you may need to enable the universe and multiverse repositories):
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core checkinstall yasm texi2html libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsdl1.2-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore-dev zlib1g-dev
Install x264
3. Get the most current source files from the official x264 git repository, compile, and install. You can run “./configure –help” to see what features you can enable/disable. Daily source tarballs are also available, and forum member Bachstelze provides x264 Ubuntu packages for anyone who doesn’t want to compile.
cd git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git cd x264 ./configure make sudo checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`+`git rev-list HEAD -n 1 | head -c 7`" --backup=no --default
Install libvpx (optional)
4. This is used to encode and decode VP8 video. If you skip this, remove –enable-libvpx from step 6.
cd git clone git://review.webmproject.org/libvpx.git cd libvpx ./configure make sudo checkinstall --pkgname=libvpx --pkgversion="`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`-git" --backup=no --default
Install libtheora (optional)
5. This is used to encode to Theora, the video type usually found in OGG/OGV files. The repository libtheora is too old, so it must be compiled. I recommend skipping this step and omitting –enable-libtheora in step 6 if you don’t plan on encoding Theora video:
sudo apt-get install libogg-dev cd wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz tar xzvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz cd libtheora-1.1.1 ./configure --disable-shared make sudo checkinstall --pkgname=libtheora --pkgversion "1.1.1" --backup=no --default
Install FFmpeg
6. Get the most current source files from the official FFmpeg SVN, compile, and install. Run “./configure –help” to see what features you can enable/disable. Nightly FFmpeg snapshots are also available.
cd svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg cd ffmpeg ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab make sudo checkinstall --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "4:0.5+svn`date +%Y%m%d`" --backup=no --default hash x264 ffmpeg ffplay
That’s it for installation. You can keep the ~/x264 and ~/ffmpeg directories if you later want to update the source files to a new revision. See “Updating Your Installation” on the first page of this guide for more details.
Now head back to the FFmpeg guide for usage instructions and more.
Reverting Changes Made by This Guide
To remove FFmpeg/x264 and other packages added for this guide:
sudo apt-get remove x264 ffmpeg build-essential subversion git-core checkinstall yasm texi2html libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libogg-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora libvpx libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore-dev zlib1g-dev
Lastly, delete the ffmpeg, libtheora, libvpx, and x264 directories in your home folder.
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