Install latest ffmpeg on ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04

Thank you!

Thank you so much @xdamman. Just a minor improvement to run this faster (parallelize tasks on all available cores) every make, could be replaced with
make -j $(nproc) or at the top of the script alias make="make -j $(nproc)" could be added.

Thanks a lot for life saving...

Thank You so much :) .

I love you.

thank's a lot!

Hello,

I want to transcode on my Dell T20 (Xeon) a stream with h264_qsv. It runs on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server with Media Server Studio Essentials 2016th

I am following command input ...
ffmpeg -i URL_Input -vcodec h264_qsv -b 2700k -maxrate 2700k -preset:v slow -s 1280x720 -acodec aac -ar 44100 -ac 2 -strict -2 -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:10000

... I get the following error message:

[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] mfx init: /dev/drirenderD128 fd open failed
[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] mfx init: /dev/drirenderD129 fd open failed
[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] mfx init: /dev/drirenderD123 fd open failed

...
[h264_qsv @ 0x3ff5d60] Error initializing the encoder

I'm from the "Windows World" and am still relatively new to the "Linux World" Please therefore noob-friendly answer :)

Thank you very much

This is basically an outdated copy of a copy of FFmpeg Wiki: Compile FFmpeg on Ubuntu/Debian.

Thank you, before line 20 you need to mention to install "yasm" (Assembler stuff):
sudo apt-get install yasm

line 18, should change to:
git clone --depth 1 http://git.videolan.org/git/x264.git

ty!!! :D

Thanks for this! Awesome time saver.

Thanks a lot!

When using the ffmpeg command from terminal I get
"/bin/sh: 1: ffmpeg: not found"

I followed the whole process and everything went well, just I am not able to use the ffmpeg command.

Any help with this?

This helped me solve a problem I was having with ffmpeg. I was ripping my face off! Thanks a lot man!

Thanks Bro :)

Another Thank you.

on my 14.04 installation it breaks because of "--enable-libfaac"

after removing it, it ran ok.

ok.... its been nearly a year... im trying to install ffmpeg on my dedicated server from dreamhost. as they told me that i need to install ffmpeg by myself. while i got no knowledge on installing it.

my dedicated server ubunut 12.04 code name precise.... and my ffmpeg version 0.8

how to achieve a successful ffmpeg installation... been looking long time already.. didnt find the solution. try solution given here... but none is working.

Hope i can get answer from you all.... thanks in advanced

It's really really good. Thanks a lot :D I spent 3 days try to install this package to my development board. It helped me a lot

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I install ffmpeg with just this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

@crclayton this script seems to build from source, the repo u point out is an unofficial one as far as I'm aware.

Outstanding!

command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

"And confirm the following message by pressing :"

"Also note that with apt-get a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is needed for initial setup & with some package upgrades
More info: https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it"

Update the package list.

command: sudo apt-get update
command: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

"Now FFmpeg is available to be installed with apt:"

command: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

That's it. Enjoy :)

nasm should be installed before running the script. And nasm cannot be installed by 'apt-get' because a new version is required while nasm in apt-get is too old. I compiled nasm from source.

Please find an always up-to-date guide here:

http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu

This one also has proper instructions for nasm.

Thanks! You are my HERO.

Thanks!

Thanks bro. I think it will be even more awesome if you add "libsdl2-dev" to the dependencies, since 'ffplay' will not be compiled without it. I am using 16.04.