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Installing ffmpeg libraries on linux

Installing FFMPEG requires that you install different libraries for a best performance and more variety of code and decoding functions. This is the list of the libraries that you will have to compile and install.

lame-3.9b6
liba52
libvorvis
libtheora
libogg
libfaad
libfaac

lame-3.9b6
To install the library "lame-3.9b6", from your terminal write this code:

$ wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.98b6.tar.gz?modtime=1205354241&big_mirror=0"

$ tar -xvzf lame-3.9b6.tar.gz

$ cd lame-3.9b6

$ ./configure --enable-shared

$ make

$ make install

$ make check


liba52
To install the library "liba52", from your terminal write this code:

$ wget "http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz"

$ tar -xvzf a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz

$ cd a52dec-0.7.4

$ ./configure --enable-shared

$ make

$ make install

$ make check


libvorvis
To install the library "libvorvis", from your terminal write this code:

$ wget "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz"

$ tar -xvzf libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz

$ cd libvorbis-1.2.0

$ ./configure --enable-shared

$ make

$ make install

$ make check


libtheora
To install the library "libtheora", from your terminal write this code:

$ wget "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0beta3.tar.gz"

$ tar -xvzf libtheora-1.0beta3.tar.gz

$ cd libtheora-1.0beta3

$ ./configure --enable-shared

$ make

$ make install

$ make check


libogg
To install the library "libogg", from your terminal write this code:

$ wget "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz"

$ tar -xvzf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz

$ cd libogg-1.1.3

$ ./configure --enable-shared

$ make

$ make install

$ make check


libfaad
To install the library "libfaad", from your terminal write this code:

$ wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faad2-2.6.1.tar.gz"

$ tar -xvzf faad2-2.6.1.tar.gz

$ cd faad2-2.6.1

$ ./bootstrap $ ./configure --enable-shared

$ make

$ make install

$ make check


libfaac
To install the library "libfaac", from your terminal write this code:

$ wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.26.tar.gz"

$ tar -xvzf faac-1.26.tar.gz

$ cd faac-1.26

$ ./bootstrap $ ./configure --enable-shared

$ make

$ make install

$ make check