Compile FFmpeg on CentOS 6 with H.264 support

Compile FFmpeg on CentOS 6 with H.264 support

This guide is based on a minimal CentOS installation and will install FFmpeg with several external encoding libraries. This guide is kept relatively up to date with FFmpeg development and library sources (see the page history for changelog), and should also work for recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora.

Note: The # indicates that the command should be executed as superuser or root.
Preparation ¶


Remove any existing packages:
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# yum erase ffmpeg x264 x264-devel

Get the dependencies:
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# yum install gcc git make nasm pkgconfig wget zlib-devel

Make a source directory:
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mkdir ~/ffmpeg-source

Installation ¶

Yasm ¶


Yasm is an assembler used by x264 and FFmpeg.
Code:

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cd ~/ffmpeg-sourcewget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gztar xzvf yasm-1.2.0.tar.gzcd yasm-1.2.0./configuremake# make install

Note: If you do not require certain encoders you may skip the relevant section and then remove the appropriate ./configure option in FFmpeg. For example, if libvorbis is not needed, then skip that section and then remove --enable-libvorbis from the Install FFmpeg section.
x264 ¶


H.264 video encoder.
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cd ~/ffmpeg-sourcegit clone git:/git.videolan.org/x264cd x264./configure --enable-staticmake# make install

LAME ¶


MP3 audio encoder.
Code:

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cd ~/ffmpeg-sourcewget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.5.tar.gztar xzvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gzcd lame-3.99.5./configure --disable-shared --enable-nasmmake# make install

libogg ¶


Required for libvorbis.
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cd ~/ffmpeg-sourcewget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.0.tar.gztar xzvf libogg-1.3.0.tar.gzcd libogg-1.3.0./configure --disable-sharedmake# make install

libvorbis ¶


Vorbis audio encoder.
Code:

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cd ~/ffmpeg-sourcewget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gztar xzvf libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gzcd libvorbis-1.3.3./configure --disable-sharedmake# make install

libvpx ¶


VP8 video encoder.
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cd ~/ffmpeg-sourcegit clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.gitcd libvpx./configuremake# make install

FFmpeg ¶
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cd ~/ffmpeg-sourcegit clone git:/source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpegcd ffmpeg./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264make# make install

Compilation is now complete and ffmpeg should now be ready to use. The rest of this guide shows how to update or remove FFmpeg.

Note: Keep the ffmpeg-source directory and all contents if you intend to update or uninstall as shown below.
Updating x264, libvpx, and FFmpeg ¶


First uninstall x264, libvpx, and FFmpeg:
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cd ~/ffmpeg-source/x264# make uninstallcd ~/ffmpeg-source/ffmpeg# make uninstallcd ~/ffmpeg-source/libvpx# make uninstall

Update x264 ¶
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cd ~/ffmpeg-source/x264make distcleangit pull

Then run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install x264 section.
Update libvpx ¶
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cd ~/ffmpeg-source/libvpxmake cleangit pull

Then run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install libvpx section.
Update FFmpeg ¶
Code:

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cd ~/ffmpeg-source/ffmpegmake distcleangit pull

Then run ./configure, make, and make install as shown in the Install FFmpeg section.
Reverting changes made by this guide ¶
Code:

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cd ~/ffmpeg-source/yasm-1.2.0# make uninstallcd ../x264# make uninstallcd ../lame-3.99.5# make uninstallcd ../libogg-1.3.0# make uninstallcd ../libvorbis-1.3.3# make uninstallcd ../libvpx# make uninstallcd ../ffmpeg# make uninstallrm -rf ~/ffmpeg-source# yum erase gcc git make nasm pkgconfig wget