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FFmpeg-0.4.7

Introduction to FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Due to heavy development, not all of this functions will work.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.4.7.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://sunsite.ccu.edu.tw/pub14/sourceforge/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.4.7.tar.gz
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 32 MB
Estimated build time: 1.01 SBU

FFmpeg dependencies

Optional

libvorbis-1.0, LAME-3.93.1, Imlib2-1.1.0, SDL-1.2.6 and FreeType-2.1.5

Installation of FFmpeg

Install FFmpeg by running the following commands:

Note: The package maintainers recommend compiling without any optimizations.

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--enable-shared: This switch is needed to build libavcodec and libavformat shared libraries.

Configuring FFmpeg

Config files

~/.ffmpeg/ffserver-config

You'll find a sample ffserver configuration file at http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/sample.html

The FFmpeg package contains ffmpeg , ffserver, ffplay, libavcodec and libavformat.

Description

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a command-line tool to convert video files, network streams and input from a TV card to several video formats.

ffserver

ffserver is a streaming server for everything that ffmpeg could use as input (files, streams, TV card input, webcam, etc.).

ffplay

ffplay is a very simple and portable media player using the ffmpeg libraries and the SDL library.

libavcodec/libavformat

libavcodec and libavformats are libraries for encoding/decoding video streams and putting them into files or network packets. Since they're well documented, you can easily include them in your software, like some other packages already do.