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Installing FFMPEG

FFmpeg is a computer program that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. FFMPEG is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of free software / open source libraries. It includes libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, and libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library. The name of the project comes from the MPEG video standards group, together with "FF" for "fast forward".

Type these commands into SSH:
# mkdir /usr/local/src
# cd /usr/local/src
# mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
# chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
# export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp
# wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.11.tar.gz
# tar xzf ffmpeg-0.11.tar.gz
# cd ffmpeg-0.11
# make distclean
# ./configure  --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libvpx --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopencore-amrnb  --enable-libtheora 
# make clean && make && make install
# make tools/qt-faststart
# cp tools/qt-faststart /usr/local/bin/
# ldconfig

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