Install FFmpeg on Centos/RHEL 5/6/7

FFmpeg is a gathering of libraries and tools to process interactive media substance, for example, sound, feature, subtitles and related metadata. FFmpeg is a quick feature and sound converter that can likewise snatch from a live sound/feature source.

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FFmpeg is the main mixed media structure, ready to translate, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, channel and play virtually anything that people and machines have made. It supports the most cloud old organizations up to the front line.

FFmpeg Libraries:-

  • `libavcodec` gives execution of a more extensive scope of codecs.
  • `libavformat` implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access
  • `libavutil` incorporates hashers, decompressors and different utility cap..acities.
  • `libavfilter` gives an intend to modify decoded Audio and Video through chain of channels.
  • `libavdevice` gives a deliberation to get to catch and playback gadgets.
  • `libswresample` actualizes sound blending and resampling schedules.
  • `libswscale` actualizes shading transformation and scaling schedules.
  • Step 1: Install FFmpeg
    Before installing make sure that you have enabled atrpms repository in system. Now we install FFmpeg packages on our server.

    yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
    
    Dependencies Resolved
    
    ===========================================================================================================================================================
     Package                                      Arch                           Version                      Repository                      Size
    ===========================================================================================================================================================
    Installing:
     ffmpeg                                       x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                         1.6 M
     ffmpeg-devel                                 x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                         5.4 M
    Installing for dependencies:
     libavcodec55                                 x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                         3.3 M
     libavformat55                                x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                         677 k
     libavutil52                                  x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                         118 k
     libavfilter4                                 x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                         346 k
     libavdevice55                                x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                          38 k
     libswresample0                               x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                          41 k
     libswscale2                                  x86_64                         2.2.1-65.el7                  atrpms                         114 k
     
     Transaction Summary
    ===========================================================================================================================================================
    Install  2 Packages (+7 Dependent packages)
    Total download size: 19 M
    Installed size: 62 M
    Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
    

    Step 2: Check FFmpeg packages
    Check FFmpeg packages using following command:

    rpm -qa | grep ffmpeg
    
    ffmpeg-devel-2.2.1-65.el6.x86_64
    ffmpeg-2.2.1-65.el6.x86_64
    

    Step 3: Check FFmpeg version
    Check version using following command:

    # ffmpeg -v
    
    ffmpeg version 2.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
    

    After installing FFmpeg packages now we can Convert any video using FFMPEG

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